{"id":804,"date":"2006-03-09T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/03\/09\/the-ultra-mobile-pc\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T15:28:21","slug":"the-ultra-mobile-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/03\/09\/the-ultra-mobile-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultra-Mobile PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umpc.com\/\">UMPC.com<\/a> has a nice little <a href=\"http:\/\/umpc.com\/video.aspx\">video<\/a> showing off how the average person will probably be using Microsoft&#8217;s latest upcoming product, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/umpc\/default.mspx\">Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/umpc.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" alt=\"Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PC\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.sprintpcs.com\/explore\/PhonesAccessories\/PhoneDetails.jsp?navLocator=%7Cshop%7CphonesAccessories%7CallPhones%7C&#038;selectSkuId=sprintppc6700&#038;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1476015&#038;CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_SCID=ECOMM&#038;CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_PCode=None&#038;CURRENT_USER%3C%3EATR_cartState=group&#038;bmUID=1141917814048\">Sprint PPC-6700<\/a> for a few months now, I can definitely see the advantages of these handy little devices.  On the flip side, I do wonder about the cost compared to a laptop.  I also will be watching to see what mobile wireless plans become available for the devices, as EVDO plans are still slightly out of what I&#8217;d be willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p>However, if these UMPCs become popular enough, their acceptance within the mainstream community could do wonders with pushing down mobile wireless broadband prices for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMPC.com has a nice little video showing off how the average person will probably be using Microsoft&#8217;s latest upcoming product, the Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer. Having used a Sprint PPC-6700 for a few months now, I can definitely see the advantages of these handy little devices. On the flip side, I do wonder about the cost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/03\/09\/the-ultra-mobile-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ultra-Mobile PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}