Sharp and Willcom have revealed their new, up and coming D4 WS016SH UMPC – a highly compact pivoting slider type Intel Centrino Atom Z520 1.33GHz powered UMPC sporting a 5” WSVGA 262k colour 1024 x 600 resolution LCD touchscreen, 1GB of integrated RAM and 40GB hard disk.
Weighing in at a mere 470g and measuring just 84 x 188 x 25.9mm, the Sharp/Willcom D4 WS016SH comes with Wi-Fi (IEEE802. 11b / g), Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, integrated 2 megapixel autofocus camera, full 64 key QWERTY keyboard, built in TV tuner, full multimedia capabilities complete with mono external speaker.
Operating Windows Vista Home Premium and supplied with Office and Powerpoint 2007 applications the Sharp Willcom D4 WS016SH is due to be released sometime mid-June in Japan with what we hope to be an international release coming soon afterwards – though there is, at the time of writing, no confirmation of international release dates or pricing.
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Why don’t the other UMPC companies copy this design? This is the greatest UMPC I have seen so far! Great size and shape. Finally something small enough to carry that is a clamshell.
Couldn’t agree with you more - its a great design.