OK, so Origami is the same as the Ultra Mobile PC.
Big deal.
Microsoft's advertorial web page on it is too pathetic for words. Poorly composed pictures of soccer mom's and turtlenecked hipsters using it outside etc. etc. Intel's site is just as bone headed. Usage scenarios that have been mixed and remixed for years. A big bucket of empty promises of wireless connectivity and seamless synchronization. "Your life in your pocket"-mumbo-jumbo.
How many more times do we have to go through this? It doesn't work. It never did. Unless you have some specifically designed software to run on it, the experience is going to be crap.
Sure it comes with the "Touch pack". Wooow. From videos it is clear to its main function is to launch standard windows programs. Which of course don't fit the small screen and have to display a set of scrollbars. Including a horizontal one! That's just sin. Haven't Intel and Microsoft learned by now that it is devices with a very specific function that are really succesful?
Just look at PDAs. That market has all but disappeared, eventhough more and more features were crammed in to the devices. I see more people running around with PSPs then I see people seriously using PDAs. And I'm not talking kids here either. This is not going to change any time soon. Nokia's Internet Tablet does a lot of the things the UMPC is supposed to do, but does it in a useful form-factor. Sure it doesn't run all your Windows apps, but you have to wonder if people will really use that ability in the UMPC...
Oh and did I mention it weighs a kilo....?
Just give me my eInk-enabled eBook reader with enough battery power to read War and Peace 10 times and I'll go away. Promise!
