After feeling away, what can UMPC bring us?

Foreword To write this article, we must first thank the tapes and CDs in the appendices of childhood textbooks. We were able to buy portable tape players, CD players, and MP3s in the name of learning 20 years ago and we were able to carry back a bunch of them. The lyrics; Thanks again for the English course, so that we can beg our parents to buy electronic dictionaries from a few years ago, and exchange "Magic Tower", "Legend of Heroes" and "Devil Chronicles" together in class; This decades of exploration by major computer makers for the handheld market has brought us much fun. When I was very young, I was exposed to the red and white machine, and then I saw the little friend playing Gameboy in the classroom and suddenly refreshed three views: The original TV + game console can become so small! Afterwards, I got in touch with the computer and I was addicted to programming. I was eager to have a small computer like a Gameboy that allowed me to continue writing programs. After a little bit of growing up, my father took me to the Tao Street flea market and occasionally saw all sorts of foreign waste palmtop computers floating across the ocean. My heart was hot except for excitement. Dad actually took me home and Throw me a backgammon electronic dictionary. However, from this UMPC (Ultra-mobile Personal Computer, super mobile personal computer) left in my mind an indelible shadow. Well, these are all hypocritical situations. outline I found three products that span two decades of time before and after, trying to tell a feeling. From left to right, HP Jornada 688 (1999), Fujitsu U1010 (2008), and GPD WIN (2016) represent the different stages of development of the three UMPCs. Start To say from what events can glimpse the outline of the personal computer in 1999, you can probably start with the following sticker. In that year, still studying elementary school, I saw the term “millennium bug” from the “Computer News”, and just took a magnifying glass to see some bugs in the well water of the school. I thought that there were parasites in the computer. Pick up the insecticide water and rush to the computer at home. Thanks to returning home, this matter was forgotten. Jornada That year, Hewlett-Packard introduced the Jornada series of handheld computers to the business market. These small computers using the Windows CE system should be quite rare in the era of the mainstream PC or Windows 98. From the appearance of this series of computers, we can see that the UMPC of this era has defined itself as a reduced version of the laptop. In front of the camera, there are three buttons that are common to the recorder. In fact, these three buttons are actually the “recorder” program that comes with the control system. You can press the recording button to quickly record the audio. The recorder program must be used beforehand. Windows 3.2 ~ Windows 2000 this range of operating system students will remember. Windows CE and Windows on PCs are two things completely, but this small computer has painstakingly deployed some of the common interfaces for laptops, such as telephone line jacks. It was an era without WIFI, or even broadband, and the Internet was all dialed by telephone. This computer was the main commercial market at that time, and the Internet access function was also indispensable. Plug in the phone line and run the “dial-up Internet” program to open it. "Compact IE browser", you can visit the Internet at the time - the design is very beautiful. Next to the cable jack is the data cable interface of the machine, which can connect the PC to transfer files. On the other side of the fuselage, a dual-purpose slot for the CF card/PCMCIA card is designed. When inserted from the side, the PCMCIA is used to lift the CF card. - To make a complete socket on such a compact body, the designer's brain hole is not small. PCMCIA is an interface that has been sunk in the dust of history. At that time, it took on more roles than today's USB interface. At that time, there were various PCMCIA network cards, PCMCIA optical disk drives, and PCMCIA encryption devices. There will even be PCMCIA-USB expansion cards in the next few years. There is an infrared communication port under the PCMCIA card exit button. This interface is also common on mobile phones more than a decade ago. Maybe many people still have the experience of using infrared to share ringtones between mobile phones. For these 20 years, whether it is a mobile phone or a PDA Laptops, laptops, and even some home appliances use IrDA, a common interface. On the software side, Microsoft's office suite is inevitable. The pocket version of Office includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Together with a well-character keyboard and battery life of 45 hours, it should be a good mobile office artifact. Incidentally, the only game that comes with this machine is "Solitaire", which is also the most widely distributed game developed by Microsoft. For Windows CE, this game has always existed in every subsequent version. It also includes Windows Mobile. brilliant In the years when Intel hadn't started squeezing toothpaste, the era of Centrino and Atom, two mobile processor product lines in the mobile platform era, in the era of Apple and Google not yet entering the tablet market, around 2008, It was a period of explosive development of UMPC and HPC products. During that era, Sony, Fujitsu, and Blacksmith’s House continued to emerge. Samsung, eking, BenQ, and Patriots entered the market. For a time, UMPC marketers The most famous of them was the early Sony UX sliders and the late P-series pocketbooks, but they were not representative of this period because the former was too unique and the latter was launched. Too late. Therefore, I chose Fujitsu U1010 as the representative of this period. Fujitsu U1010 is equipped with Windows XP and Windows Vista, using a common rotary flip design for handwriting notebooks of that era. The screen is a resistive touch screen, equipped with a GPS module, a SIM card module, a fingerprint module, and a mouse pointing stick at the upper right of the body. The left and right mouse buttons are set at the top left, and the camera is set at the top of the screen. The keyboard layout is not particularly out of line - how to look at is a laptop with enhanced mobile function. The interface is the mainstream 3.5mm audio interface, SD card slot, USB 2.0 interface, as well as the front display interface, as the notebook. The machine uses the A110 800MHZ CPU, and the performance is quite swift. Although at that time, I also took the same series of 600MHZ processor workers to use Eclipse to knock down tens of thousands of lines of code. However, this CPU makes this machine almost inconsistent with the game, and generally also playing the FC game of the simulator - this is also an embarrassing situation facing the UMPC of that era, basically only for office, in terms of entertainment due to the CPU and Constraints on heat dissipation can neither be smooth nor online video. However, the UMPCs of this era have historically key indicators: X86 platforms that can be plugged into pockets at any time. This means that most of the software that people use on their computers on a daily basis can be carried out in many places. One of the reasons for making the UMPC and Eking UMPC sell well is that the stock trading software can run on it. A real PC with real players has an unparalleled attraction for many people. The netbooks in the same period are too large and portable, and the mobile applications in the same period are too young and practical to use. All in all, the UMPC of this era has finally set aside its status as a tall person in the past and began to try to integrate into people's daily routines to serve as a daily application tool. In the era of no ipad, no android pad, "tablet" refers to basically rotating handwritten notebooks, such as Thinkpad's X41T series, such as Fujitsu's T430 family, such as HP's TC1000 series. As a result, the PCMCIA interface mentioned earlier was officially eliminated in this era. The successor is the ExpressCard. The above figure shows the slot of the placeholder card. ExpressCard is still widely used today in larger notebooks, such as workstations, outdoor notebooks, and many of the 3G cards used in recent years are in the form of ExpressCards. I believe that most people come into contact with Solitaire this game is on Windows XP, and Windows XP is already old when the U1010 was born, and there are not many notebooks that will be pre-installed. just now In the following years, the netbook disappeared, and the mobile phone no longer had a keyboard. Tablets and large-screen phones gradually occupied every corner of our lives. At one time, even the entry-level laptops were a bit depressing. And I, apart from occasionally glancing at the flea market to witness the glorious Pocket PC, HPC, UMPC and other antiquities, I don’t feel that the UMPC can survive anymore – the hardware and software of the mobile phone are too powerful and powerful. Application scenarios no longer require PC involvement. Until I saw a strange thing like GPD WIN. GPD WIN Flip PSP/PS2/PS3/XBOX/PC handheld game console win10 system black 2399 yuan Jingdong direct link I envisioned many UMPC scenarios and imagined many possible UMPC stylings, but I absolutely can't think of anyone trying to make the handles a major part of a UMPC. (About GPD WIN, Auntie has related out-of-the-box and evaluations. Do not start discussing its function.) Thanks to Intel's direction in recent years to reduce toothpaste and power consumption, and to enhance nuclear display, thanks to the explosive popularity of USB Type-C in the past two years, it also benefits from the fact that mobile phone screens are getting closer to the tablet in the past two years. The birth of GPD WIN is not too abrupt. Different from previous UMPCs racking their brains to stack all kinds of slots in four directions, the interface of WIN is just behind the main body. The USB, TF card, 3.5mm, type-c, and HDMI are quite a few. There was no extra interface for ordinary people who didn't know what to use. When I first saw it, I felt a calm and rudeness that was backed by the power of the times. If you say that the UMPC 20 years ago was only a tall business plaything, and the UMPC ten years ago could have entered the lives of the general public, then this may be the UMPC's most straightforward gesture. Thanks again for the low-power miniaturization of the IC, which is smaller than its predecessors, so small that I can put it in an empty corner of the backpack. Its thickness and weight are also enough for people to put it in the pocket of the coat - just like with PSP and NDS before, it doesn't add too much burden. I have identified another combination of portable games to highlight the value it has for some game players. Chicken handle G3 enhanced Bluetooth wireless, Apple Andrews PC PC PS3 Universal, fit the king of glory CF cross fire mobile phone game handle 139.9 yuan Jingdong direct link Nokia 6 (Nokia6) 4GB+64GB Black Full Netcom dual SIM dual standby mobile Unicom Telecom 4G mobile phone 1699 yuan Nokia 6 as Nokia's first mobile phone product after the return, using 6000 series aluminum alloy body, after 50 minutes polished and 10 Anodizing and polishing treatment for more than an hour. The screen is equipped with a 5.5-inch 1080P LCD panel + 2.5D Gorilla glass cover, reaching 85% NTSC color gamut, with a maximum brightness of 450 nits. Hardware configuration, Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, equipped with 4GB RA Jingdong direct link to Wikipedia Unconsciously, the advancement of the Atom platform in recent years has made it impossible for the UMPC to use the game of minesweeping as a simulator to play games in the 1970s and 1980s. This machine can play 21st century simulator games! Since the screen resolution is only 720P, even if you leave the simulator, its performance is enough to support many independent games on the steam or two or three years ago, such as the old roll 5, riding cut, no owner, such as various RPG games such as Feeling 6, such as various small butter. If I was at home, I could play a variety of games on my desktop computer in streaming, so I could finally hold a handheld player and play Laura in bed. But obviously this is just a malformed direction. On convenience, it's better than mobile phones. It's gameplay. It's more like a handheld game. It may be so short-lived that the illusion of UMPC's rebirth will disappear. However, the card will not disappear. end A few years ago, watching the notebook become thinner and thinner, the screen border getting smaller and smaller, and the battery life getting longer and longer. Looking at Joe's helper, he took out a laptop from an envelope and watched Sony launch a compact slider computer. I once thought that it was inevitable that holding a PC to replace MP3, MP4, and mobile phones became the standard for people. It was never imagined that the mobile phone will invade the survival space of the PC blockbuster. Whether it was two decades ago or ten years ago, the UMPC's market positioning was always unclear, performance was always insufficient to face mainstream applications, and the ever-high prices made it impossible for potential users to explore its uses. Today, after performance meets day-to-day needs and prices are accepted by the general public, it seems that the world no longer needs it. I still miss the day when I was reading a novel and playing a game with a flashlight in bed, I missed the yearning of the electronic dictionary behind the books while I was aiming at the teacher, and I missed the strong desire for a small computer. Missing the young years under the supervision of the teachers, and all of this seems to be ultimately pinned on the four letters of the "UMPC", and it seems that time will gradually disappear. Returning to the original question: What will the UMPC bring us after feeling away? Think about the stereotyped cell phone models and the laptops that look like macbooks over the years. Perhaps our hearts are a little boring and need some fresh stimulation. UMPC may bring this new idea - the innovation of old bottled new wines. - I can't edit it, and I don't know the answer. At this moment, my mind is full of strange phone handsets. Maybe this is a messy article, with nothing but memories of old things. At the end of the final day, please come to Wali who also likes to pick up rubbish, and use his small eyes to convey my feelings at the moment.