OmniOne Pocket PC Wants to be a Compact Windows Machine You Can Thumb-Type On

Craft Studio has just launched the OmniOne Pocket PC, a handheld computer that runs full Windows 11 on a chip more commonly found in super-cheap laptops. Slide it out of your coat pocket and you’ve got a real desktop ready to go for email, spreadsheets, or those Zoom calls you just can’t seem get out of.

Holding it in your hands, the layout feels familiar, like a tiny laptop. The keys sit on either side of a square touchpad, allowing you to quickly type emails and other tasks without needing to use a Bluetooth keyboard. The screen is 1280 x 720, not too shabby for text and light photo edits, – and it puts out a respectable 400 nits, so it doesn’t get all washed out in the sunlight. You can give it a bit of a tilt, and the G-sensor kicks in . The picture flips over like a phone.

Power-wise it’s an Intel N150 Twin Lake, a four core thing that sips a mere six watts when it’s just coasting. Open up ten browser tabs, have a lecture streaming and the fan is barely spinning. Knock it up a notch – say, compiling code or running a virtual machine – and it can pull twelve watts before the cooling vents kick in on the sides. And the temps stay under control – the plastic & metal shell won’t suddenly turn into a hand warmer.


You can swap memory and storage in seconds – just pop the four screws, lift the fireproof nylon backpanel, and you’re presented with a SODIMM slot, happy to accept DDR4-3200 sticks up to 32 GB. Right next to it, an M.2 2280 bay waits for a PCIe NVMe or plain SATA drive. You can kick off with 8 GB and a 256 GB SSD for $359 on Kickstarter; step up to 16 GB/512 GB for sixty bucks more. And the 32 GB/1 TB version comes in at $689, which is still a pretty good deal considering a loaded MacBook Air.


As you’d expect from a machine this size, ports are plentiful (compared to tablets) – two USB-C handles 35-watt charging and DisplayPort video, as well as two USB-A ports. And then there’s full-size HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 to feed two external 4K screens at once. Gigabit Ethernet just plugs straight in – no dongle required . You get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 for quick wireless connections. There’s a 3.5 mm jack to drive your headphones, and the stereo 2-watt speakers manage to fill a quiet room.


Battery life is where it needs to be for most people – 16.34 watt-hour cell gives you three hours of video or five-plus hours of typing and browsing at half brightness. And if you plug it into any 35-watt USB-C bank, the OmniOne will keep on running while it’s charging. If you’re really traveling light, you can chuck a 20,000 mAh pack in, and it’ll give you another full day.


The camera up top is a one megapixel affair, good for a quick video call – dual microphones pick up your voice just fine and noise cancellation is basic but works pretty well. And if you touch the screen with five fingers, Windows recognises all the gestures you’d expect – pinch to zoom, three-finger swipe to switch apps.

Windows 11 Home gets the nod and arrives pre-installed and fired up right out of the box. You can have a desktop up and running in just 12 seconds flat, giving your favourite apps a permanent home on the taskbar – just like on the PC at home. Office, VSCode, and even Steam games can all run without any issues. The N150 doesn’t break any records with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 2,200 – it’s good for getting the daily essentials done, but if you’re planning on pushing it too hard with 4K video editing, might want to look elsewhere.


Craft Studio knocked this body together from a mash up of materials – you get matte plastic on the sides, with a brushed metal section in the middle and there are even some silicone bumpers to protect the corners from getting knocked about. This tiny laptop only weighs 326 grams – that’s less than two smartphones stacked up one on top of the other. And when you look at the specs – 158 x 135 x 20mm – it’s just about big enough for an adult thumb to be able to reach round the keyboard and it’s thin enough to happily squeeze into a backpack sleeve too.

If you’re champing at the bit to get your hands on one – dont hang around too long on Kickstarter – the early bird special for $359 (8GB/256GB) sold out not once, but twice already. Shipping’s looking to kick off in February 2026 over in the States, Europe, Canada and Australia and from what i can see every unit comes with a year long warranty plus you get free returns if you’re not happy with it – you have 30 days to make up your mind.
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