Urbanmax looks like giant Ipod Touch

This thing doesn't look like an iPod Touch - you're blind.

Unless and until projection technology becomes feasible for portable use, I think that the bigger screen you can carry out, the better experience you have. I mean most mobiles today can play back videos but who would want to watch movies on them. I believe that we have not seen a solid competitor to the iPhone because of its comparatively large screen size (regardless of resoltuion). Because when it comes to media, bigger is definitely better!

"INTEL HAS SHOWN off what seems to be an oversized Ipod Touch at its Taiwanese developers forum this week.
Well, if you’re going to copy Apple, copy its pricing model, that obviously seems to be the reasoning here"
Who the heck said they're trying to copy Apple? Anything which has a touchscreen doesn't become an iPhone. And why the heck would they keep the price as $200 for something that offers much better functionality than iPhone?


"Something very uncool about the trying-so-hard-to-be-hip Urbanmax is that it apparently runs Vista, not known for being particularly brilliant ever, especially not with regards to touch screens."
Who's forcing you to use Vista? It uses an x86 processor (Core 2 duo) unlike iPhone and so it's just like a normal computer-- you can install whatever operating system you like.

"And the question is, will be people really want to schlep around some giant version of an Iphone that won’t even fit in their pockets? iDont think so."
Again you're assuming it's meant to compete with iPhone. ugh. Why would you expect to be able to carry a computer in your pocket.

...that there's a huge (and still largely untapped) demand for tablets among artists.

The Microsoft-pushed Tablet PCs remain a bit pricey and a bit hard for "punters" to figure out, while Apple has steadfastly stayed out of the tablet market. This leaves most artists still drooling for Wacom's Cintiq, which is a nice product but costs as much as a laptop and still requires a computer to tether it to.

Now that the Tablet PC push has run its course and most of these touchscreens have abilities on par with Wacom's lower-end products, putting it all in a classy-looking, fairly portable casing should be a no-brainer.

A "regular person" doesn't have much need for such a thing, but a student who might doodle in OpenCanvas or a professional needing to sketch out proposals and so on from the road could use them.

How is this like an ipod? Oh sorry, it has a touch screen and it's black, silly me...

It's "Idont think so.", not "iDont think so." Glenda will be very p***ed.

Looky here: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/25/inquir

"Intel reckons its concept would support HD 1080p video playback on its 1366x768 resolution display"

So how exactly will it squeeze in 1080 vertical pixels on a 768 pixel high display??? Well, apart from the obvious "downscale it to 720p" option.....

"apparently runs Vista, not known for being particularly brilliant ever, especially not with regards to touch screens"

Your'e kidding right? Vista has one huge redeeming feature and that's its touch support. What a ridiculous 'FUD' like statement to make. NO current OS has better support for touchscreens.

I haven't tried Vista speech recognition but I read that it's substantially improved over XP Tablet Edition. It is presumably still processor hungry, though. Meanwhile I use the Fitaly "keyboard" program - I have kind-of RSI. I prefer a contactless-sensed stylus to gesture while clicking with the other hand, but plain touch with an old, carefully washed marker is tolerable - it's an accuracy thing. This looks like just a nice Tablet PC. The catch is the word "concept", which we know to mean usually "never to be manufactured".