Excerpt: Fortune.com Is ultra-mobile the next big thing?


	Excerpt: Fortune.com Is ultra-mobile the next big thing?

zephyr1

5-8-2007 8:54 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3cc8b832-f995-490b-b606-e792d35d9900/9A596B6B-6E8B-482A-BE12-E88D75D9832D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/08/is-ultra-mobile-the-next-big-thing/" href="http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/08/is-ultra-mobile-the-next-big-thing/" style="font-size: 11px;">thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/08/is-ultra-mobile-the-next-big-thing/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/img/6506F4FB-2855-42B1-9C51-0E4C188BDD11" alt="qiultra" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/08/is-ultra-mobile-the-next-big-thing/"><P>The company doesn’t claim that the Q1 will replace your primary computer; neither will they give sales figures, except to say that they’ve sold as many of the original model in the first quarter of 2007 as they did in all of 2006. Samsung also seems to be pushing the idea that the Q1 Ultra is good for business applications, like transmitting maps or data collected in the field. The <A href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/samsung-ships-q1-ultra-umpc-258290.php">harshters</A> at Gizmodo have already dismissed it “as a solution in search of a problem,” an admittedly unbeatable phrase: most of what I’d want to do on the road I’d want in a smaller device, like a Treo or Sidekick, and for anything else a small but more powerful laptop.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/08/is-ultra-mobile-the-next-big-thing/"><P>I suspect there is a market for the Q1 Ultra, but it’s modest. The real question is: once Wi-Max and 3.5G give us wireless ubiquity, will there be important tricks the Q1 Ultra can do that a cheaper device won’t be able to? My guess is not many.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9A596B6B-6E8B-482A-BE12-E88D75D9832D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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