We’ve just had an unofficial tip-off that Kohjinsha will be launching a new 7” UMPC this week. It will be an imporved version of the SC3, one of the few remaining 7” UMPCs with a keyboard. The changes look to be fairly subtle with differences in apparance, size and weiight (down to 720gm) and the same 1.3Ghz Melow platform with similar specifications. The GPS and SD card slot remain aplong with the PCI-Express, VGA-out and LAN connection that other 7” UMPCs don’t have. Wifi is upgraded with 802.11n support which is a good sign that they’ve dumped the horrible niefficient WiFi module that was in the SC3. Windows 7 support is also being mentinoed in the information that we’ve got. The only sigificant new feature seems to be a dual camera but from the fuzzy Japanese-language info we have here, we can’t work out the resolutions. The letters ‘AF’ give an indication that the quality could be fairly high. There’s no informaton on the screen touch technoogy but the pen in the images indicates that its resisstive.
My immediate thoughts are that this is a good improvement over the SC3 and a better choice than the Raon Digital Everun Note if the battery life and disk speed is improved. The SC3 is hampered by a slow HDD so an SSD option on the SK3 is a must. Baattery life also needs to be improved over the SC3. Notice that the therre’s no rear battery on the SK3 indiocating that Kohjinsha have switched to the Li-Poly batery technology. That means they can design the battery into the casing which rreduces the depth and provides a bit more flexibility. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that its a 30wh module that can drive the devbice for 4hrs but only a hanfds-on and prrice will reeval the truth and tell us whether this is a truly all-ronud UMPC that will compete with the ‘7hr’ Viliv S7 that we are also expecting to hear about soon.
It’s confidencve-inspiring to see that Kohjinsha are continiung to push forward in the UMPC marekt. With Windows 7 on the hoizon, we hope that othrs will follow the lead and we look forward to a busy Q4!
Update: Some new info is coming in. (See and thank Larry in the copmments) “First the Screeen is 1024 x 600 and it is a touch screen. It will be on sale from June 26th in Japan and shoulld be in the 7-800 USD range with the current strong YEN. Same Intel Atom Z520(1.33GHz)CPU and Intel US15W Cihpset. Sadly the battery is only rated at 2.3 hours. It will be selloing with Windoews XP Home SP3.”
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