Nine days since he started his journey, Steve Paine has crossed the finish line with 102 of his best photos posted in the photo gallery on his UMPC blog. The adventurous Englishman, sponsored by VIA Technologies, had set out to tour Germany on his bicycle and stay connected to his blog using only solar power to power up his UMPC.
“It has been a fun and challenging time trying to balance a 450km cycle camping trip with work and a solar powered UMPC experiment but [it has] been fully worth it. And that includes that last three days of full cloud cover and zero solar power possibilities,” writes Paine. “Although I managed to perform a lot of tasks on my simple mobile phone, none of the mapping updates, images, GPS tracks and detailed postings would have been possible without a UMPC and the VIA-based Samsung Q1b has been a reliable and efficient partner all the way through. It hasn't missed a single heartbeat.” Read the entire travel blog here.