I love it when electronic hardware manufacturers get innovative even if it’s already been done several times in the past. There’s a new Pocket PC or Ultra-Mobile PC or Mini-PC that’s gotten nicely funded over on Kickstarter. Traditionally, “Pocket PC” was Microsoft’s term for “Palm-sized PCs” running the Pocket PC operating system embedded on smartphone sized devices or PDAs (personal digital assistants) at around the turn of the century. This is a full Windows 11 computer packed into small pocket friendly hardware though. Around 2004 and 2006, we also had “Ultra-Mobile PC’s” which were small 5″ devices that ran full Windows as well. See: Ultra-Mobile PC Wikipedia.
The OmniOne 5.7 is a similar Ultra-Mobile PC with a full Qwerty keyboard, 5.7″ touch screen, trackpad, Intel N150 processor, up to 1Tb storage, 16.34Wh battery, and loads of I/O ports such as 2 USB-C ports, HDMI, Display Port, 2 USB-A ports, and even a full Ethernet port. Wow!
Windows 11 is pre-installed, but you can put Linux or Windows 10 on it as well. Personally, I think that user-experience design wise, the Windows 8 user interface was the best for this type of device, but we can’t have that anymore.
The Kickstarter pricing varies from $400 to $690 depending on configuration.
