Dialogue Technology

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Dialogue Technology is a technology company, founded in 1990 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Europe headquarter in Italy and subsidiary in Japan and USA. Dialogue integrates mobile computing with human interface technologies. Dialogue's flagship product is the Flybook, an ultraportable laptop computer with integrated 3G (Wi-Fi/3.5G W-CDMA or CDMA2000/Bluetooth) technology.

Founded in 1990 by Mr. Jack Lee, with his wide experience as head-engineer in a renown IT company, Dialogue Tech. Corporation initially focuses on the research and development of touch screen and wireless applications to be integrated in innovative notebooks.

During the following years, his idea evolves towards the realization of a computer which is based upon 3 main concepts:

maximum portability: modest dimensions and weight
maximum connectivity: integrated wireless technology (Bluetooth, wi-fi, gprs)
attractive design: stand out from the gloomy IT panorama through a product that shows personality.

In 2003, the first Flybook is introduced and launched on the European market. Its being so unique thanks to special features that cannot be found in any other product worldwide, make Flybook an immediate success that gains a stable position on the top-high market dedicated to professionals, people on the move, trend-setters.

Thanks to its 7-color range, it wins the eye and heart of the female market, freeing notebooks from the usual dreariness of grey and black. Offering high-tech products developed in cooperation with the main wireless technology and ultra-low voltage suppliers, during the years Dialogue has gone more and more international with the opening of its branches in Italy (for the European market), Japan and U.S.A.

Dialogue can today boast important partnerships with the main Japanese and Italian mobile phone providers, who particularly appreciate Flybook's extraordinary connectivity and portability features and consider it the ideal tool for GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA connections.

Dialogue group globally counts today 200 staff people and develops a turnover of 150M US$.

Dialogue Technology is back at CeBIT after celebrating a very successful CES show in January. Two new notebook models the company launched at the CES won awards. The Flybook V5 won the Intel award for the smallest fully-functional notebook computer. In addition the Flybook VM - designed with Intel “Airline Friendly“ concept in mind - was winner of the CES 2008 Microsoft award for “The world's most fashionable portable PC“.

Since then the company has not looked back and has enjoyed exponential growth in global markets. The company has grown to such a size by building computers based on portability, connectivity and Italian design.

The Flybook VM was the first notebook with a swan-neck screen design which means it can be “airline friendly“, giving full usage and comfort in the tightest of spaces. Connectivity via GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA modules allows connection speeds up to 3.6Mbit/s (upgradeable to 7.2Mbit/s).

The Flybook V5 is the world's smallest ultraportable computer and features similar connectivity along with cutting edge features such as fingerprint authentication and a trackpoint device that allows full usage of the V5 while standing and holding the device with one hand. The company is now seeking European distributors.

The first Flybook model (A33i) was powered by a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Newer models that arrived in May 2006 are powered by Intel's Pentium M ULV processor and the latest models use the Core 2 Duo ULV CPU and Centrino platform. Current FlyBook product series include V5 (8.9") and VM(12.1").