Cloud Computing: The Hive hopes to build pocket PC buzz
January 4, 2015Grazed from USA Today. Author: Mike Snider.
The pocket PC is set to make a return. But these aren’t the forgotten Pocket PCs of the last decade. These are fully-powered portable Windows workstations for consumers and professionals alike.
L.A.-based start-up firm The Hive is unveiling its new Amplicity portable smartphone-sized personal computers this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Windows-based products are about the size of a smartphone – just more than half an inch thick and rectangular at about 3-by-5 inches (4.8 inches)…
The Amplicity Anywhere pocket PC, expected to be available this spring, is priced at $99 for the device and basic software. A higher-priced Amplicity product, starting at $399 and due later in the year, will come in different configurations to target professional users such as filmmakers, graphic artists and musicians and will boast more powerful cloud-based creative tools…
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