I guess it’s safe to say that in this day and age, computers are becoming smaller in size while maintaining many of its robust features and a little something more. Now, welcome the latest addition to this slowly growing class of mobile computers: the Willcom D4 (Sharp WS016SH).
Akihabara has come out with a review of this upcoming device, and their quite pleased with it. It’s one of the first UMPCs to have an Intel Atom running at its core with 1.33GHz speed. Other specs include a 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Windows Vista. It's hard to believe that all of these are housed in an ultra-compact 84x188x25.9mm body that weighs only 470g. It makes use of a 5-inch 1024x600 touch screen and has a slide out full QWERTY keypad for text input. It also comes with a 2-megpaixel camera and OneSeg TV tuner.
Based on their review, the choice to go Vista seems to be a bad move as performance greatly suffered due to the high demands on the OS. I also wonder how the hell you can read text with display resolutions set so high. However, they quickly noted that this is still not yet the final version so their might be changes in either the OS or the hardware configuration.
Though we highly doubt that this nifty little piece of machinery will make it to our country, this is just a sign of greater things to come in the mobile computer industry.
Akihabara has come out with a review of this upcoming device, and their quite pleased with it. It’s one of the first UMPCs to have an Intel Atom running at its core with 1.33GHz speed. Other specs include a 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Windows Vista. It's hard to believe that all of these are housed in an ultra-compact 84x188x25.9mm body that weighs only 470g. It makes use of a 5-inch 1024x600 touch screen and has a slide out full QWERTY keypad for text input. It also comes with a 2-megpaixel camera and OneSeg TV tuner.
Based on their review, the choice to go Vista seems to be a bad move as performance greatly suffered due to the high demands on the OS. I also wonder how the hell you can read text with display resolutions set so high. However, they quickly noted that this is still not yet the final version so their might be changes in either the OS or the hardware configuration.
Though we highly doubt that this nifty little piece of machinery will make it to our country, this is just a sign of greater things to come in the mobile computer industry.
