PHOTOS: Datawind Ubisurfer hands on

Up close with the £159 netbook

PHOTOS: Datawind Ubisurfer hands on

10 July 2009 9:11 GMT / By Chris Hall

Datawind unveiled its Ubisurfer netbook on Thursday and we were on hand to grab some shots of the new device.

Taking a slight departure from the typical "mini notebook" netbook specs, the Ubisurfer is designed for internet users on the go and comes with an embedded Vodafone SIM giving you a GPRS connection without the bother of a dongle.

Coming with a Linux OS, it features a 7-inch, 800 x 480px display, 128MB RAM, a 1GB of storage on-board, but easily expanded via an SDHC card, so you could simply add what you need.

All the communications are inbuilt, giving you a GPRS data connection and Wi-Fi for hotspots or in your home, or a standard Ethernet connection. It features the normal headphone and mic jacks, as well as having speakers for the playback of your media.

For £159 you get 30 hours of browsing a month for the first year. Interestingly the roaming charges are only 5p a minute, so it might appeal to the likes of caravaners in Europe who want access to the Internet, without the bother of all the additional expense that comes with a more conventional netbook and mobile broadband dongle.

The Ubisurfer will be on sale in Maplin soon.

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  • You can knock £10 off that price from Maplin (I used the saving to have mine delivered by FedEx).

    My initial impressions are very good. There was an initial 4+ hours delay for datawind to complete a registration process so I could browse with GPRS (the same time I should have been charging the battery before its initial use!)

    I've connected to my local wifi, it allows WEP, WPA and WPA2, and there is firefox for wifi browsing and their own browser for GPRS browsing. It's slow but that's what I expected. I haven't used all the applications yet but everything so far works (except perhaps a little red shift button for 'Zzz' and page movements). I've been on bbc news and used logmein to control my desktop without a problem.

    I'm excited too that there is python 2.5 on board; this isn't a closed system! I've already loaded up a SD card with pdf books to read too.
     Posted by Colin, UK

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