Netbook Digest

Via RegHardware:

Not quite a netbook tablet, Samsung’s UMPC is going to be a miss with the innovation hungry consumer crowd for one reason, price.

The sleekly designed UMPC tablet features everything you’d find in a tablet and everything you wouldn’t (keyboard of any kind).  It’s got some respectable specs, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 60GB HDD storage, a VIA Nano 1.2GHZ proccesor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and even a GPS receiver, unfortunately, it comes at the steep price of $780 standard.

When your tablet’s price gets closer to notebook range, it stops being cute and portable and start’s being just a really expensive netbook.  When you can get everything this tablet promises, plus the option of a keyboard for significantly less it looks more like a rip-off than an efficient set-up.

Samsung is going to swing and miss with this thing.