The Ultra Mobile PC, or UMPC, represents a design that was originally developed by Microsoft under a program called Origami.
One of the first products in this category is the Samsung UMPC-Q1.
While the Q1 looks very much like a big portable media player, it is in fact a fully functioning computer, running Windows XP Tablet PC edition.
Equipped with 7-inch screen, a 1 GHz Intel Pentium M chip, and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity, the Q1 can conceivably do everything that a regular PC can.
This includes accessing the Internet, and running multimedia applications like video and music playback, as well as productivity applications like Microsoft Office.
The Q1 also uses the latest storage technology and provides up to 40GB of memory in a SSD (solid state disk) drive, replacing the spinning disk of conventional hard drives with memory chips like SDRAM or flash chips.