Is Intels UMPC really Origami incognito at IDF?
San Francisco (CA) – No, Origami has not yet been officially announced. But several sources in and around the Intel Developers’ Forum here have hinted that various permutations of the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) prototype concept that have popped up here, would be “very similar” to the mysterious Origami device Microsoft will be unveiling on 9 March at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hanover, Germany. One UMPC device we saw late yesterday, which consumes about half the footprint of a regular notebook, lacked any branding information, though it had been given the impromptu designation, “Coming Soon…” If it really is Origami that we saw, then this particular device may be somewhat underwhelming: For a first-generation system, it lacks many of the features we would expect from a product that is as mobile as Microsoft is describing it on origamiproject.com. The device is basically a small tablet PC with 5″ screen, an integrated digital camera with video recording capability and some buttons place on t
