Fancy a UMPC for around S$1,000?

Darius Chang | May 29, 2007

Fancy a UMPC but unwilling to pay sky-high prices for rock-bottom performance? Well, a UMPC has been spotted in Singapore which is going for an almost too-good-to-be-true price.

The name may be a mouthful, but the Kohjisha SA1F00 is possibly one of the cheapest UMPC machines you can get your hands on outside the land of the rising sun. Resembling another convertible UMPC, the Fujitsu LifeBook FMV-U Series, it has a keyboard/touchpad combo and runs on the AMD Geode LX-800 500MHz processor, with an option to bump the 512MB memory up to 1GB.

Weighing only 960g, it has a runtime of 5 hours, much longer than the ASUS and Samsung UMPCs. The Kohjisha has generously included two USB 2.0 ports and a memory card reader while allowing for 802.1b/g and Bluetooth radios. Both modem and Ethernet network connectivity are supported internally. The 7-inch touchscreen is larger than the Fujitsu's 5.6-inch display, and has a maximum resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

But what you really want to know is the price, right? At almost half that of its competitors, the black version with a 40GB harddisk is going for S$1,049 (US$690.13), while the white 100GB model is only slightly more expensive at S$1,199 (US$788.82). The Kohjisha SA1F00 is currently distributed by PA Mart in Singapore Funan the IT Mall, but only limited units are available.