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If you’re going to be catching a Continental Airlines flight out of Boston anytime soon, you’ll have a chance to test their new electronic boarding pass system. Any passenger with an Internet enabled cell phone or PDA will now be able to receive their boarding pass via an email with a link to a special web page that will display an encrypted bar code. The code reveals their name and flight info when scanned at the TSA check point and boarding gate. The agents doing the scanning are forbidden to actually touch passenger’s devices, fearing liability issues if they are damaged or broken.

“We don’t want to drop it,” said Kevin Anzalone, a TSA supervisor at Logan. “Next thing you know is we’re discussing how to replace it, and it’s $600 or $700.”

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Here is a little peep show of the Samsung Q1, ultra-mobile PC. As we previously said our hands on time at Digital Experience was limited but still enough to offer a brief overview. The device is feature rich. Between the large touch screen to the processing specs to the OS, the Q1 can do what you need. There is an onscreen thumb keyboard as well as handwriting recognition and an onscreen QWERTY keypad for use with the stylus. The main issue is where the unit fits in amongst thin and light 12-13” laptops, PDAs Smartphones, the Sidekick, Sony’s UX, and other mini PCs. The Q1 won’t come close to fitting in a pocket nor in many pocketbooks. Heavy users have been offering nothing but accolades (besides the 3.5 hour battery life) for the Q1 and claim that they will never use a laptop again. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Check out the peep show.