No, not really.
Most people don't need an UMPC,
but for people who like these gadgets,
there are some nice ones, the best one beeing the OQO 02 IMHO.

Don't forget that the Nokia 770 and 800 are not UMPC's,
but blown-up smartphones without (GSM) phone capability.


I'm glad my current UMPC is an XP machine.
This way I can use the full version of Firefox,
which never really made it into the Nokia 770.

And I can also use Emu48, my favourite HP-48 emulator.
X48 is _decades_ behind, so it's not a real alternative.


Not a real problem for me. My OQO 02 has a 60GB HD,
so I don't have to hassle with shitty small and expensive
Flash drives.

It also has 1GB of RAM, so these low memory conditions
usually occuring in the Nokia 770 don't ever happen.


That's right, they're still too expensive.
But after about two years of waiting for better devices,
and many frustrating experiences with the Nokia 770,
At some point I had enough from these promising devices,
like the 770, which never held what what they promised,
and took much of my time just to find out that they
would never be what was promised in the beginning.

So I finally bought an OQO Model 02.

Same footprint as the Nokia 770, double the thickness,
double the weight, but *MUCH* better screen, a very good keyboard,
and a real mouse replacement with left and right mouse buttons.

This thing simply works as expected, no crashes, and it is fast!

Ray