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1. Apple to debut $700 tablet in September?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 03 August 2009

   ... Origami idea, also known as UMPC. From what we have heard from analysts is that the Apple iPad (that name is purely our guess, by the way) will be basically a monstrous iPod touch with a 10” screen and ...

2. UMPC, take 2: Samsung touts first WiMax MID

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 21 July 2009

   ... Origami concept and the UMPC to look like, even if it does not take much to predict that Samsung’s new MID is dead right out of the gate.  Chicago (IL) – Samsung today announced the first commercially ...

3. Five reasons why an Apple tablet makes sense now

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 22 May 2008

   ... believe the project was never really scrapped, claiming Apple has been developing a Mac tablet behind closed doors. In the meantime, Microsoft developed Origami, a concept for the ultra-mobile class of ...

4. Intel fires up new Atom processors

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 01 April 2008

   ... Origami (as Microsoft called it) was promised to be. A handheld pocket computer you would carry with you anywhere you go. UMPCs are currently powered by the firm’s A100/A110 processors (Stealey core), ...

5. The HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + The MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Friday, 21 March 2008

   ... limited but also a vastly more power efficient mode.   This is the first Origami 2.0 device I’ve had a chance to use and it is much improved over Origami 1.0.   This provides more of a ...

6. Microsoft Surface: What Media Center should have been - analyst opinion

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Wednesday, 30 May 2007

   When I was briefed on Surface (previously code-named Milan) a few days ago, I was incredibly impressed. Having gotten used to disappointments like Origami, Zune, and even the Media Center PC where Microsoft ...

7. The UMPC dies. And no one notices.

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 03 May 2007

   ... the UMPC was supposed to be and what it became When Microsoft pitched a mysterious Origami device, which essentially became the concept and general understanding of what a UMPC should be, we learned that ...

8. Is Intel back and do they love Apple? You betcha!

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Wednesday, 27 September 2006

   ... these two platforms can do against each other. My new car and my new UMPC I know a lot of you have written off the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC, called Origami by Microsoft) but Intel brought out a second generation ...

9. Samsung's Q1 UMPC to start selling at Best Buy

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 01 May 2006

   ... originally started as Microsoft's Origami project to build a hybrid PDA/laptop alternative. In the coming months, Asus, Averatec, Founder, and Via will introduce competing UMPCs. Curiously, the Q1 does ...

10. Will the next PSP upgrades be Sony's answer to Origami?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 March 2006

    A video camera with full-motion capability, VoIP communicatoins, and GPS navigation are among the features that were supposed to make Intel's and Microsoft's UMPC platform unique and distinct. Yet they're ...

11. Microsoft's Origami UMPC: What were they thinking?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 14 March 2006

    ... of how to make everyday PC functionality more portable and more usable, you would think that the first iteration of what had been code-named "Origami" would have focused on form and function...or at least ...

12. Is Intel's UMPC really Origami incognito at IDF?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 08 March 2006

    No, Origami has not been announced. At least not officially. But several sources hinted that a UMPC shown at IDF would be "very similar" to the mysterious Origami device Microsoft will be unveiling on ...

13. Leaked 'Origami' prototype video too old to be accurate, says Microsoft

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 28 February 2006

    A Microsoft spokesperson told TG Daily this afternoon that a video leaked to the public through one of the company's North American advertising agencies, did indeed depict the company's Origami project, ...

14. Will Microsoft Origami be the first UMPC?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 27 February 2006

    A website vaguely describing what could be a handheld device is heating up rumors on the Internet, OrigamiProject.com, registered to Microsoft, is believed to outlined a new approach to generate a product ...

15. Intel to unveil UMPC this week

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Monday, 27 February 2006

      Microsoft's so-called Origami Project, due to be launched on Thursday, appears to be its early version of the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) concept Intel has been touting of late. Microsoft's so-called ...