Tablets are a fashionable topic right now – Apple are expected to announce their own model next week, and CES 2010 was positively dripping with touchscreens – but we’ve been hammering on about how useful a compact ultramobile device can be for years now. Before Christmas new UK startup PsiXpda dropped off their first offering, a compact UMPC with a slick, sliding/tilting form-factor, and asked us to give our honest opinion. At a shade under £500 ($820) the PsiXpda isn’t cheap, especially in a world of netbooks and “superphones”; check out how it does in the full SlashGear review after the cut.

The hardware specifications look a little underwhelming, until you remind yourself of the scale of the PsiXpda itself. An Intel Atom Z510 1.1GHz processor is paired with 1GB of RAM and a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 WVGA resistive touchscreen; storage is a 16GB SSD and connectivity includes WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, two USB 2.0 ports (one of which is a mini USB) and optional 3G via a readily-accessed miniPCI card under a panel on the bottom. There’s also a microSD card slot (labeled TransFlash), a 2.5mm headphones/headset socket and a proprietary port for a docking station (that doesn’t currently seem to be available from PsiXpda).
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