Well, the Koreans knew it before any of us did. The UMID M1 sucks big time on built quality. UMPCportal was in the mood for a full review of the Mbook M1 and here’s what they have to say:

1. Groundbreakingly portable computer
2. Totally hand usable (no table or lap necessary)
3. Plastic body is of poor quality
4. Thumb keys too deep, FN combination keys for some punctuations… not an entirely usable keyboard for thumb typing
5. No 3.5mm jack
6. Good screen
7. Card slot suffers from poor design
8. Buttons for WiFi and Bluetooth
9. Good multimedia performance
10. Touchscreen interface far from perfect (could be a browser problem)
11. Fast boot up
12. 3.5 to 4 hour battery life
13. No mouse control, strictly touchscreen

Still the Mbook M1 gets a pretty flattering summary from UMPCportal:

We’re impressed with the technology in the UMID Mbook, the processing power, the battery life, the screen and the fast SSD. We’re not impressed with the fiddly micro-SD slot, headphone and USB ports though and these, we’re sure, will be major issues for a lot of people. Build quality could also be better. Despite these issues, the UMID is a device that you keep going back to and keep wanting to take with you, even if you don’t have any ‘computing’ activities planned. It’s a very flexible, and fast, pocket companion. One might say, a pocket microblogging rocket!

[source via engadget]