Samsung 'Origami' Device Hits the US Market
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What Is Origami?

Origami machines run a tablet version of the Windows XP operating system and are aimed at a market niche between laptop PCs and PDAs. The devices allow users to browse the Internet, listen to music, view movies and other video entertainment, play games, and "write" handwritten notes much as they can on a Microsoft Tablet PC device.

Samsung's Q1 has a 7-inch LCD monitor with touch screen functionality and is about half the size of an average laptop PC. At 1.7 pounds it is also lighter, and is less than an inch thick. Battery life runs about 3 hours.