Black Diamond Launches SwitchBack PC

September 26, 2006

Black Diamond are launching the SwitchBack PC which is a rugged UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC). The UMPC was unveilled at the Intel Booth at ESC Boston. This is believed to be a first of it’s kind. Black Diamond specialise in rugged electronic systems and this will be it’s flagship product.

Rugged UMPC

Technical Specs
It’s dimensions are 7.5″ x 5.5″ x 2″
It has a 10Ghz Intel Celeron M Processor, 1GB 400MHz DDR2 memory and it is capable of running several flavours of OS such as XP, CE, mobile or Linux.

Features to make it rugged are protected electronics that can withstand a drop and a rubber rugged outer case. It has a thumb keyboard, a 5.6″ WSVGA screen which is viewable in the sunlight (touch screen).

Other features include Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS which is built in.

The SwitchBack PC will be expandable with an array of attachable devices which will help it with specific tasks.

Via: SwitchBackPC

Written by Matthew · Filed Under Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets