Mini Amilo on the way.

With all the hype around the Ultra Mobile sector it’s no surprise that every man and his rusty dog is jumping on the band wagon. UMPC’s sales are predicted to eclipse those of laptops and PC’s combind by 2011 - that’s a whole lot of hardware.

So, into the fray steps Fujitsu Siemens Computers with a mini Amilo offering. The new device will be unveiled at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin later this month.

The mini Amilo will be powered by Intel’s Atom processor and run Windows XP (I don’t which version yet but hopefully not Home Edition). Prices of about £300 are being touted so it should easily be within the budget of most buyers. Users will be able to choose a number of differently coloured clip-on casings - a pretty crap idea if you ask me but in reality feature has been added to keep prices down.

More details will be disclosed at IFA.

There’ll be some info available over here at this UMPC news site.

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