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The mobile PC markets keep trying is more like it. Yes the UMPC and the great technology enabling full windows to be so small has juge mainstream upside potential but the problem is it has been influenced by tech people out of touch with reality.

How does the world primarily input letters/numbers into FULL desktop operating systems and softwares? the answer is a touch type keyboard. What is the most popular mobile computer that sells over 113 Million new units a year? the laptop.

So it seems pretty silly to expect the mainstream to want a thumb input computer and or a pen input computer. Face the facts mainstream users will not want to buy them period. Thumb input was / and is a band aid solution for palm size PDA's as people just did not like using a stylus or pen input. That does not mean that just because they band aided PDA's with a thumb keyboard that anyone in their right mind would want one on a computer that is larger?

What would enable UMPC's to hit mainstream accceptance is for them to create a jacket pocket, touch type keyboard clamshell computer form factor. Somthing like the great Psion 5mx or HP Jornada 720 hpc's of the 1990's. UMPC's have even after more than a year had weak sales with the worldwide 2007 sales only 350k. Both Psion and HP Jornada's sold more than that each year; in fact the jacket size clamshells in the 90's sold over 2.3 million per year! Now that we have the technology to stuff full windows into even smaller devices, the technology is now available to use that great form factor for huge mainstream adoption.

The OQO is about 33% smaller in volume to a Psion 5mx and a Psion is a fair amount smaller than a Jornada 720. Both had nice touch type keyboards and would fit into a jacket pocket. That is what the UMPC market needs a computer designed around functionality mainstream users already enjoy but in a jacket pocket version so we can be more mobile.