I think the doomsayers calling the UMPC dead are letting their personal feelings (or greed for traffic) get in the way of the big picture. Sure, it's easy to create a sensational headline saying " is Dead" but the content of those articles reads more like wishful thinking. Usually, the title should read "I Wish were Dead"

However, when I read Ari Jaaksi's article Mobile is Dead! I realized that of all the guy's to know if WAP is dead, it's the guy who helped create the Nokia WAP Browser. Ari said, "There is only one internet, and if your device cannot access it, you’re out of luck." and I think UMPCs are popping up to fulfill this desire to access the Internet that phones are failing to deliver.

I think a lot of the disconnect that we see is that phones are based on MIPS processors which do not have the same applications developed for it as our desktop computer. Ari goes on to state, "I predict that mobile software will thus eventually die. All we need is software that runs everywhere." What we really need is x86 everywhere and the software will follow. It's good to see people from the phone manufacturers talking about this, they're starting to understand that in order for the phone to stay relevant in the face of increasing internet reliance, the mobile phone will need an x86 processor. As we see the x86 form factor shrinking more and more, we'll get to the point that any device can have an x86 processor in it, whether it's a mobile phone, an iPod, or a handheld gaming system.

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Saturday, 02 June 2007

I agrre 100% with this. Why do you think Intel sold the XScale CPU production plant/line.

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