Microsoft Origami, now called Ultra Mobile PC

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
http://gear.ign.com/articles/691/691935p1.html

A look at the origami from IGN

Thanks for the link :thumbsup:

Iono wtf kinda pants other people wear, but that isn't fitting into my pocket.

 

[killershroom1985]

So I read on some news found on news.google that Microsoft was doing something today, as well as Apple, but this thing isn't suppose to be announced until March 2nd. What is going on today?

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Looks like a big PDA to me...

I've never seen a PDA that can play games like Halo, much less handle a remote desktop connection to play Halo (if in fact that is all that it does).

 

[ondarkness]

I'm running out of pockets to puts stuff in....

 

[killershroom1985]

Anyone heard anything from Microsoft today?

 

[jlmadyson]

Originally posted by: killershroom1985
Anyone heard anything from Microsoft today?

Just this:

NEW YORK ? A new portable media device that allows users to listen to music, play video games, browse the Internet and jot hand-written notes is the initial vision of a product in development by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and its partners, the software giant said on Monday.

Microsoft acknowledged that an early version of its new hand-held PC-like device was featured in a video on the Web site for marketing firm Digital Kitchen.

Microsoft Confirms 'Origami' Is Portable Media Device

 

[killershroom1985]

"Microsoft today confirmed to WindowsForDevices.com that Origami is based on "some form of Windows XP."


Oh hell yes! :thumbsup:

 

[uhohs]

let me know when it's <$500 and has a huge hd. 🙂

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: killershroom1985
"Microsoft today confirmed to WindowsForDevices.com that Origami is based on "some form of Windows XP."


Oh hell yes! :thumbsup:

i wonder why not just wait for vista... guess the "second generation" ones will be vista based.

 

[mwmorph]

this oragami is seriously going to kick arse if MS does ti right. It'll be like a PSP but it'll actualyl deliver on it's promise of versatility(anyone surf the net on a psp recently?).

 

[saahmed]

What is this about? I was just linked to this: http://www.origamiproject.com/1/ and it caught my attention. I didnt really read throught the above posts, but it is already known what it is? A Microsoft laptop?

 

[timosyy]

Hmm? I read somewhere that it would be priced around $500 (or at least under 1k)

From the ads and stuff it seems geared toward (one would assume) students who presumably aren't so well off... there were a total of zero businessmen/women in the video. Then again, that could just be your typical hipster advertising.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: timosyy
Hmm? I read somewhere that it would be priced around $500 (or at least under 1k)

500 seems reasonable

1000 is too much

 

[timosyy]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: timosyy
Hmm? I read somewhere that it would be priced around $500 (or at least under 1k)

500 seems reasonable

1000 is too much

$500 would beat the pants off the prices of the tablet PC's running around these days...

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: timosyy

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: timosyy
Hmm? I read somewhere that it would be priced around $500 (or at least under 1k)

500 seems reasonable

1000 is too much

$500 would beat the pants off the prices of the tablet PC's running around these days...

they are still laptops remember that

 

[killershroom1985]

So should we expect anything announced tomorrow or not?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: killershroom1985
So should we expect anything announced tomorrow or not?

CNET says there's just be more hype tomorrow, and we won't be seeing any details till the end of the month.

Looks like this product might crumble under the hype.

 

[pinion9]

When is the origami going to be unveiled? Sometime today?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: pinion9
When is the origami going to be unveiled? Sometime today?

No, they're just gonna hype it till the last week of March. CNET

 

[mzkhadir]

the micosoft origami website has been updated

next update 3/9/06

 

[MaxFusion16]

looks like an ugly version of the sony vaio u50, good job microsoft, you are about 2 years late.

 

[thehstrybean]

They just changed the date to the 9th...
That's actually really funny because I showed that video to my teacher (head of IT), then he went to the site and they had just updated it...we saw different videos...It was pretty funny, espicially when I saw that the date had changed...
How typical of MS...

 

[Meractik]

marked for later

 

[killershroom1985]

The 9th? bleeeeeeh....COME ON! lol

 

[mzkhadir]

they are going by 3 weeks

week 1 was last
this is week 2
week 3 is next week