BOE launched its LCD module business for mobile phones and shipped the first 2″ units to a Korean mobile phone manufacturer. On its L1 and L3 fabs, BOE produces 1.8″-5″ panels targeted toward mobile phones, PMPs, digital cameras, and MP3 players. The article in Wireless Design & Development asia also puts in UMPCs, but as [...]

The UX Micro PC, unlike UMPCs, has a built-in mechanical keyboard. Good move Sony. I hate leaving my fingerprints all over the screen. According to Engadget, the unit is powered by a Core Solo CPU and runs Windows XP Pro. Dang. Some wireless goodness include: Bluetooth, WiFi and WWAN (EGDE, shoot, why not EV-DO?). It [...]

Sony has a teaser campaign or a viral marketing program going on. After a few blury images pass by it asks: “Is it green, red, orange, or <font color=blue>Blu</font>?” Well, from the way they spelled blu, I’m guessing it has something to do with Blu-ray. But, aren’t Blu-ray disks pretty darn big? Too big to [...]