Windows XP Handhelds deliver true Pocket PCs
ziffdavis.com | at | by Mike
I started writing this column on a computer running Windows XP Professional, but also on a handheld with no desk or other flat surface to support it. That paradox is provided by the namesake computer of Tiqit, Tiqit is neither the first nor most recent company to try to shrink the PC to its practical limits, but it may be the most successful and indeed only choice for something near its dimensions when it ships in the U.S. later this year.
The idea of the mini-PC or sub-subnotebook (before marketing departments renamed that category "ultraportables") has been around for a while, The first one I tried was the IBM PC 110, a Japanese clamshell palmtop 486 that has clearly influenced the current Sony Vaio "U" series. This is especially true of the PCG-U101 that is also exclusive to the Japanese market but imported by specialty retailers such as Dynamism and Kemplar.