The Ultra Mobile PC, or UMPC for short, is a breed of computer that is like a small laptop without a hinged screen. Or, if you prefer, like a large handheld computer. Either way, it is an unusual format for a computer. Too large for the pocket, too small for serious use as your main computer.
Some UMPCs have (small) keyboards, some don't. Samsung's Q1 Ultra is in the former group, and its keyboard is absolutely tiny. It is BlackBerry-sized in fact, and split in two halves ranged either side of the screen. You aren't going to be using it to write long documents - more likely for entering Web addresses and maybe composing the odd e-mail.
As alternatives you can use handwriting recognition, a tappable keyboard on the touch-sensitive screen and 'DialKeys' which puts finger-tappable keys in two semi-circles in the bottom right and left corners of the screen.
The Q1 Ultra runs on Intel's A110 processor, which has been especially designed for this kind of mobile device. It is a shame, therefore, that we found ourselves waiting for it to catch up with our requests for action a fair amount of the time. It took a while to fill windows with program icons and to flip the screen from landscape to portrait format, for example.
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