Over the last month or so, there have been several rumors about the HTC Athena, an upcoming very high-end Pocket PC that will have a feature set that could make it comparable to a UMPC. According to Pocketinfo.nl, a web site based in the Netherlands, T-Mobile will soon announce plans to introduce a version of this device, called the Ameo. The Athena/Ameo will supposedly have a unique design. This will start out in a standard enough fashion: a tablet with a touchscreen. Added to that, though, will a detachable QWERTY keyboard. The main unit can be connected...

Seamless Internet’s S-XGen officially made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week. This device’s ten-finger keyboard and eight hour battery life make it the first practical UMPC for real all day power computing… at least in its developer’s opinion. The S-XGen was created for business users who need access to powerful mobile computing capabilities. Its designers were hoping to create a single device that eliminates the need for a laptop, cellular phone, and PDA. Specifications The S-XGen runs Microsoft Windows CE...

Samsung has introduced its newest UMPC, the Q1P-SSD. This is the first computer of its kind to use an SSD (solid state flash memory-based) hard drive in place of a conventional rotational media-based hard drive. This means that the Q1P features faster data access and boot time compared to its predecessors. Samsung believes that the Q1P-SSD is the most powerful UMPC model available. At its heart is 32 GB of SSD (solid-state NAND) flash memory, as opposed to the traditional 1.8″ hard drive found in the earlier Q1 models. Because of this, this UMPC is...