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Bill Gates is expected to demonstrate an Origami device at the CeBIT information and telecommunications trade show in Germany on Thursday.
Published on March 8, 2006 By Clonmelchat In Personal Computing
Intel revealed Tuesday it’s part of Microsoft’s much-hyped Origami project, with the semiconductor maker supplying low-power chips for “ultra mobile” PCs while the software maker is developing software to run the device.



Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is expected to demonstrate an Origami device at the CeBIT information and telecommunications trade show in Germany on Thursday.

Intel said the mobile PCs, which are as small as portable DVD players, are a hybrid between laptops and smart phones. Microsoft has been generating buzz for the devices through a teaser web site and tactical leaks as part its Origami project, which aims to bring handheld Internet devices to the masses (see Microsoft’s Stealth Origami).
The devices are expected to run on Windows XP and be capable of playing movies, music, and video, and offering GPS (global positioning system) navigation features. There will be versions with smaller screens and fan-out keyboards. There also will be devices that will use a projected keyboard image that users will be able to type on. The first devices will offer a 7-inch touch screen.

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on Mar 08, 2006
http://www.deviantart.com/view/30078946/
I got one of those mini laptops last year.....
Really hard to type on and very small with touchscreen...but it is neart to pull it out in public and watch everyone go Owwww, it is so small....Wow...but thats about all it is good for.
on Mar 08, 2006
Sounds like Microsoft are just blowing their own horn then, Bill Gates is in for some serious feedback then.
on Mar 08, 2006
Im anxious to see it. I saw the bootleg commercial for it before they had it pulled from the Internet. It looks like a really nice item. I've been buying old bum laptops for a while because I just haven't been excited enough about anything to pay the idiotic prices they want for decent ones. This might just be what tempts me to buy something new.
on Mar 09, 2006
It's revealed now. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx
on Mar 09, 2006

I'm sure this will be just as successful as their last attempt at a tablet PC.