KT, the country’s largest fixed-line operator, and SK Telecom, the largest mobile phone service provider, both began commercial services of KT WiBro and 3G+ HSDPA, a homegrown portable Internet service. WiBro, short for wireless

I like one GPS with coordinates.

HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access): This technology dramatically improves downlink speeds to meet customer demands for higher packet communications speeds, and it was standardized by the 3GPP as an advanced W-CDMA protocol.

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I just visited this company in Korea today. The previous version was sold in US through Audiovox. This latest model is not selling yet. The targeted price would be around US$700, how would you feel?

What’s the mini USB device port for? can you connect this to a PC?

How many costs?

clipped from www.itechnews.net Korean company UMID presents the F1 UMPC that comes with support for HSDPA and.

umid-f1-umpc-wibro-hsdpa.jpg. Korean company UMID presents the F1 UMPC that comes with support for HSDPA and WiBro (WiMAX) connectivity. The F1 is powered by a VIA C7-M 1.2GHz processor, 512MB/1GB of RAM, and 30GB/60GB hard drive.

Expected to launch in Korea in 2009, the MID is packed to the rafters with wireless connectivity options: WiBro, WiMAX, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth. Grunt is courtesy of an Intel Atom 1.1GHz or 1.3GHz processor paired up with 512MB or 1GB

Measures 228 x 135 x 25mm and weighs 830 grams (incl. battery), Viliv S7 is one of the many UMPCs displayed during IFA 2008 in Germany. It’s obvious since compact laptop / mini notebook is this year’s current trend, thanks to Asus’ Eee PC. Regarding S7, powered by an Intel Atom Centrino SLT processor (1.3Ghz/1.6Ghz/1.86Ghz), it sports a 7-inch touchscreen WSVGA display, a 30GB/60GB of hard drive, and a handy integrated SiRF Star III GPS receiver for built-in satnav capabilities. Like many UMPCs outthere, this one also has a a wide-range of mobile connectivity options, including Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiBro, HSDPA, and 802.11b/g WiFI.

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Finally, more detail about Samsung’s upcoming UMPC, the “SPH-P9200″ or “Deluxe MIT SPH-P9200″. I haven’t posted about this ultra mobile PC before because there isn’t much info about it. But since the manual has just leaked on the internet, here goes the specs: a 1GHz VIA C7-M processor, a 512MB of main memory, a 30GB of hard drive, 5-inch (800×480) touchscreen display, and folding full QWERTY keyboard. It is also equipped with an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, 2 x USB ports, and an optical joystick with mouse buttons. Connectivity options include a 802.11 WiFI, WiBro, Ethernet LAN, and HSDPA. No Bluetooth, but still a nice configs.

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Samsung once again shown off its “Sens X22” laptop. This time during the recent KES 2007 event in Korea. The company is expected to release it in Korea market next month, with a suggested price between 1,800,000 (KRW) and 1,900,000 (KRW). I’ve posted all the detail about Sens X22 before, so check out this post for detail information about this HSDPA/WiBro-ready machine. You can also see a few more pics after the jump.

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Here goes more details about EVERUN UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) from Raon Digital. Previously, I mistakenly announced this HSDPA-enabled mobile device as Raon UMPC. Powered by AMD Geode LX900 (600MHz) processor and high-capcity Li-Ion batteries that lasts for up to 12 hours, the UMPC sports a built-in QWERTY keypad and a large 4.8-inch 16.7M colors widescreen display. Alongside with the high-speed HSDPA access, EVERUN also adopts WiMAX (802.16e WiBro), WiFI, and Bluetooth connectivity; thus giving you a full set of options for connecting to the world wide web, including email, instant messaging, chat, or VoIP.

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Samsung has just announced that its latest utra mobile computer, “Q1 Ultra”, will be available to the Korea market very soon. If you visited CeBIT 2007 show last month, you might have seen this little baby in action. It’ll be built based on Intel’s forthcoming Santa Rosa notebook platform and sports a 800MHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, an Intel 965 chipset, Intel GMA3000 graphics engine with DirectX 9.0c support, a resolution of 1024×600 (WSVGA), HSDPA, WiBRO, and an interesting two-parts QWERTY keyboard design.

More pics after the jump.

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