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Samsung's Q1 Ultra is priced from $799 USD
Samsung Q1 Ultra will be available in 600MHz and 800MHz varieties

DailyTech has been bringing you news on the Q1 Ultra ever since we first received leaked images of the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC). Today, Samsung officially announced the Q1 Ultra and its pricing (for the entry-level model) puts it closer to Microsoft's original target for the platform.

"Since the introduction of the Q1, Samsung has been steadfastly committed to the long-term growth and development of this fast-growing product segment," said Samsung VP of Sales and Marketing Christopher Franey. "In creating the Q1 Ultra UMPC, Samsung has relied on consumer insights coupled with key technological advances to deliver a higher-performance solution packaged in an even more portable form factor that will appeal to a broader range of personal and professional users."

The Q1 Ultra will be available with two processors: The 600MHz Intel A100 and the 800MHz Intel A110. The device has a minimum battery life of 4.5 hours with its standard lithium-ion battery pack and includes 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR wireless connectivity.

Other features include a 1024x600 LED-backlit display (300 nits brightness), dual-array microphone, VGA out and split-QWERTY keyboard.

The Q1 Ultra is also available with an optional 3.5G HSDPA cellular modem, docking station (includes three USB 2.0 ports, standard/extended battery charging slot, audio-out microphone-in and stylus holder), GPS navigation, 6-cell extended battery, 8-cell extended battery and an external dual-layer DVD burner.

The Q1 Ultra will start at just $799 for the Q1U-EL (late May, entry-level configuration) with a 600MHz processor, 1GB of memory, 40GB HDD and Vista Home Premium. $1,149 will bump you up to the Q1U-XP (early June, commercial configuration) with an 800MHz processor, 60GB HDD, SD/MMC slot, dual cameras and XP Tablet PC Edition. The $1,199 Q1U-V (mid May, primary consumer configuration) includes an 800MHz processor, 60GB HDD, dual cameras and Windows Vista Home Premium.. The $1,499 Q1U-CMW (August, enhanced consumer & commercial configuration) adds an 80GB HDD, fingerprint reader and HSDPA while the $1,999 Q1U-SSD adds a 32GB SSD.

The Q1 Ultra will be available from a wide range of B&M and online retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon and NewEgg.

For those interested, the user manual for the Q1 Ultra is now available for download in PDF form from Samsung's website. You can also view more pictures of the Q1 Ultra along with images of the optional accessories here.

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By hellokeith on 5/7/2007 1:42:44 PM , Rating: 1
What OS?

Does it have vga/dvi/s-video out?




RE: details
By AmbroseAthan on 5/7/2007 1:56:47 PM , Rating: 4
RTFA~

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Other features include ... VGA out ....


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The Q1 Ultra will start at just $799 for entry-level Q1U-EL with a 600MHz processor, 40GB HDD and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition . $1149 will bump you up to the Q1U-XP with an 800MHz processor, 60GB HDD, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition . The $1199 Q1U-V is spec'd exactly the same as the Q1U-XP but includes Windows Vista Home Premium . The $1,499 Q1U-CMW adds an 80GB HDD and HSDPA while the $1,999 Q1U-SSD adds a 32GB SSD.


RE: details
By swtethan on 5/7/07, Rating: -1
RE: details
By Samus on 5/7/07, Rating: -1
RE: details
By hellokeith on 5/7/2007 3:12:42 PM , Rating: 4
Obviously you posers failed to read the article as early as I did. The information was not there. Now it is, because of my question.

So who got "pwned"? Dailytech, but you guys are close 2nd.


RE: details
By Esteem on 5/7/2007 2:01:55 PM , Rating: 1
read the 2nd to last paragraph... Tablet XP or Vista Home Premium. and looking at the korean user manual on samsung's site, it looks like it has VGA output (as well as RJ45 and USB)

DT should call these Q1U's not just Q1's, as Q1P's are already on the market.


RE: details
By DigitalFreak on 5/7/07, Rating: -1
RE: details
By Darith on 5/7/2007 3:12:41 PM , Rating: 2
It better support adobe flash!


RE: details
By JCheng on 5/7/2007 4:58:25 PM , Rating: 2
It does--it runs full-blown Windows.


RE: details
By Ajax9000 on 5/7/2007 7:39:10 PM , Rating: 2
VGA ... unfortunately.

HDMI is quite doable (see my earlier comment).


RE: details
By UNCjigga on 5/8/2007 6:18:28 PM , Rating: 2
Does the entry-level $799 model include the SD reader? The way the article is written, it sounds like you have to step-up to the next model to get SD support. That would be retarded.


RE: details
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 5/8/2007 7:52:50 PM , Rating: 2
Not included on $799 model:

dual cameras
SD card
fingerprint reader


RE: details
By Chris Peredun on 5/9/2007 5:58:22 PM , Rating: 2
The hell? I swear that a day ago, the spec listings at GottaBeMobile had the $799 model sporting the cameras, SD card, and XP Tablet. Now it lacks both and has Vista?


RE: details
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 5/10/2007 4:35:06 PM , Rating: 2
Gottabemobile had their specs wrong and later in the day updated them to reflect the official spec. The official specs are listed on Samsung's website (Gottabemobile was initially going off information it received from Samsung employees).

The only model to get XP Tablet will be the $1149 model which has the dual cameras, SD slot, 60GB hard drive and 800MHz processor.


RE: details
By UNCjigga on 5/10/2007 3:23:10 PM , Rating: 2
Like I said, retarded. Why the hell would I buy a $799 device without any support for external media? The SD card reader costs less than $3 for chrissakes? I guess I have to use wifi or USB to transfer files, rather than just taking an SD from my camera and plugging it in to view photos?


RE: details
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 5/10/2007 4:40:36 PM , Rating: 2
My D-SLR takes CF anyway, so the SD slot would have been useless.


Why bother?
By cheetah2k on 5/7/2007 9:42:16 PM , Rating: 2
In my mind, HTC Advantage would do the same job, if not better, and it has all the features plus+ being able to have 3G/2G mobile phone connectivity with a bluetooth headset! The HTC Advantage also has a keyboard!

www.seehtc.com

I mean, how the F$%K can you use Vista on a 600 Mhz PC???




RE: Why bother?
By pixelslave on 5/8/2007 1:29:27 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
I mean, how the F$%K can you use Vista on a 600 Mhz PC???


The chance you will see Aero on this UMPC is next to nothing. Without the Aero UI, Vista is not any slower than XP. In fact, I've heard some people saying that Vista actually runs faster than XP w/o the new Aero UI.

The 40Gb HD worries me, though. After a full install and a couple auto-updates, you probably won't have much space left. Also, 4200rpm is slow. Hopefully, plugging a USB 2 flash drive into the UMPC can help speed things up.


RE: Why bother?
By SiliconAddict on 5/8/2007 2:02:13 AM , Rating: 2
Bull. I've got a T41 Thinkpad. 1.4Ghz M\1.25GB RAM\40GB 5400. I received a free copy of Vista Business from that online promo where you just needed to watch 3 demos on vista tech.
Loaded up Vista from scratch on it. Didn't activate it. After about 2 weeks I removed it. The hard drive was being decimated by Vista. The overall speed was moderate to sluggish. This is on a GPU that can't do Aero to begin with @ 1024 x 768. The system was being killed by Vista. The only hope for Vista on such a system as the Q1 will have is if Samsung has tweaked the living shit out of the OS to get it to its bare minimum. I mean for the love of god MS's own minimum system requirements for Vista is 1Ghz.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv...

Again. There better be some drastic differences between the version of Vista that goes on traditional desktops\laptops and the Q1


RE: Why bother?
By cheetah2k on 5/8/2007 3:17:15 AM , Rating: 2
Thats why either a cut down os (say even WM6, Ubuntu Linux or something other than Vista!) would be a better idea for UMPC's as the OS isnt as much a memory hog, and it basically does the same things.

I'd take the HTC Advantage to be honest. At least i can make calls from it!


RE: Why bother?
By darkpaw on 5/8/2007 9:05:35 AM , Rating: 2
Problem with WM6 is you can't run standard windows programs on it and the same goes with Ubuntu. The whole point of the UMPC is for a small form factor thats actually compatible with full windows programs.

XP Tablet is perfectly suted for these machines (it runs just fine on a 500MHz machine with 256mb+ RAM). Funny thing is only reason I'd actua