Microsoft and Intel have never agreed on their definition of the the ultra mobile PC. Microsoft states the UMPC contains the ink experience and may have a VIA or Intel chipset. Intel prefers to say any system that is mobile with their particular 'mobile' chipsets is an UMPC. Regardless, the Athena by High Tech Computer (HTC) is different from other hardware that may carry the UMPC label:

• a Marvel 624MHz processor
• Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC operating system
• 5-inch VGA screen
• a separate QWERTY keyboard which can combine with the screen to become a mini notebook PC
• a built-in 3-megapixel phone camera with an 8GB hard disk drive
• support for Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access), Bluetooth and GPS (global positioning system)

P.S. We might see the Athena in early 2007.
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