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LLUON Mobbit, TG's Latest MID-UMPC with Wimax
LLUON Mobbit, TG's Latest MID-UMPC with Wimax
The Korean manufacturer TG (Trigem) just announced their new UMPC/MID, the LLUON Mobbit PS400. Powered by a 1.33GHz Z520 ATOM CPU, it features a nice little 4.8” touchscreen (WSVGA) LCD, 1GB of RAM, 30GB of HDD (or 16GB SSD), the Korean Wimax equivalent of Wi-Bro, the Wifi, Bluetooth, a ...
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Help define the future of the Internet in America.
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Trigem's Atom-based LLUON Mobbit crashes below the $500 UMPC sweet spot
Engadget — ... television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price which also factors in tax. If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the pricing goal set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late. [Via Akihabara News] Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video ...

Trigem UMPC breaks the $500 barrier
jkOnTheRun — ... One of the original criteria that Microsoft put on UMPCs when they first starting talking about them several years ago was that they'd cost less than $500.  We believe that the main reason UMPCs have never gone anywhere is because most of them that have made it to market have been far above that price point.  Now comes word out of Korea that Trigem (TG) is going to release a real UMPC for less than that magic $500 price point. ...

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