Wow! Is This The Pocket Penguin's Successor?

MIU of South Korea will be releasing an all singing and dancing dualbooting handheld for $500US in July.

Here are the specs:

4-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display which slides out and flips over for the cellphone interface

Up to a 1GHz VIA C7M ULV processor and 4GB of DDR2 memory

Dual, Windows XP / Linux Qplus embedded OS
Unspecified cellphone radio
Maximum 1.3-inch 60GB hard disk (or 4GB SSD) and miniSD/microSD expansion

7-hour battery (or 90-hours at low power)

802.11b/g WiFi, Blueooth 2.0

2x USB, docking port, stereo speakers, QWERTY thumbpad and mouse

What looks like a 5 megapixel camera
DMB mobile television and external GPS add-on

Yowch! Too bad someone hit too many times with the ugly stick and it kinda swelled up something fierce. Check out the pics in the link below.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/24/mius-50...-one-seriously/

Eye-fi Components Identified

IkonTools have cracked open the casing on an Eye-Fi and identified the components. The Eye-Fi is an SD combo card that contains 2GB of flash and and WiFi adapter all in the size of a standard SD Card (which would be flush mount in our Zs) Hopeful one of the wonder genius programmers that hang out here can hack up some drivers for our lovely Zs.

http://www.ikontools.com/articles/eyefi-dissected

In case their site goes down again (I had trouble reaching it earlier) here are the details. For some reason the post controls are disabled for me so I can't attach a pic. **SORTED OUT*** - Don't use the OESF Default theme; it's busted.

1. Atheros AR6001GL "Radio-on-a-Chip" (ROCm)

- Chipset: AR6001G
- Frequency Band: 2.4 GHz
- Network Standard: 802.11b, 802.11g
- Modulation Technology: OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, CCK
- Internal FLASH: 512 KB
- Hardware Security: AES, TKIP, WEP, WPA, WPA2, 802.11i
- Quality of Service: Wi-Fi Multimedia, 802.11e EDCF
- Media Access Technique: CSMA,/CA
- Data Path Interfaces: SDIO 1.1, SPI, 8- or 16-bit parallel memory mapped
- Control Interfaces: 16550-style UART, EJTAG, GPIO, I2S
- Memory Interfaces: Serial FLASH, Parallel FLASH, SRAM
- Supported Data Rates: IEEE 802.11b 1 to 11 Mbps, IEEE 802.11g 1 to 54 Mbps
- Package Dimensions: BGA 10mm x 10mm

2. Samsung Electronics K9LAG08U1M NAND flash

- Voltage Supply : 2.7 V ~ 3.6 V
- Organization
- Memory Cell Array : (1G + 32M)bit x 8bit
- Data Register : (2K + 64)bit x8bit

- Automatic Program and Erase
- Page Program : (2K + 64)Byte
- Block Erase : (256K + 8K)Byte
- Page Read Operation
- Page Size : (2K + 64)Byte
- Random Read : 60μs(Max.)
- Serial Access : 30ns(Min.)
- Memory Cell : 2bit / Memory Cell
- Fast Write Cycle Time
- Program time : 800μs(Typ.)
- Block Erase Time : 1.5ms(Typ.)
- Command/Address/Data Multiplexed I/O Port
- Hardware Data Protection
- Program/Erase Lockout During Power Transitions
- Reliable CMOS Floating-Gate Technology
- Endurance : 5K Program/Erase Cycles(with 4bit/512byte ECC)
- Data Retention : 10 Years
- Command Register Operation
- Unique ID for Copyright Protection
- Package: 52 - Pin ULGA (12 x 17 / 1.00 mm pitch)

3. Hyperstone S4 Flash Memory Controller

- High-speed SD1.1 / MMC 4.1: 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit host interface
- Pad-optimized design
- Clock frequency: 10 MHz to 60MHz using trimmable internal oscillator
- 0.18µm process geometry
- Performance with 1 flash memory: SD read: 18.1 MB/s, SD write: 15.2 MB/s
- 8 bit flash interface
- Dual-voltage operation
- Supports interleaved function
- ECC: up to three random bytes per 512 Byte data sector.
- Stand-by current < 100µA
- Supply voltage 1.65V to 1.95V and 2.7V to 3.6V
- Suitable for MMCmicro, microSD, RS-MMC, miniSD


4. Epic Communications FM2422 Compact RF Front-End Module

- Ultra-low current
- Low cost standard QFN package
- Miniature size: 4mm x 4mm x 0.8 mm
- 2.4 to 2.5 GHz Operating Range
- 802.11b/g: ACPR compliant up to +18dBm
- 802.11g: 5%EVM with Pout =+15dBm at 54 Mbps
- On-chip power detector
- +3.3V Power Supply
- The device includes T/R diversity switch, a low noise amplifier with band-pass filter,a low-current linearized power amplifier(LPA),low-pass filter(LPF),and power detector. Biasing and matching circuitry are all integrated to minimize the external components required.

5. Fairchild Semiconductor FAN5350 step-down switching voltage regulator

- 3MHz Fixed-Frequency Operation
- 16µA Typical Quiescent Current
- 600mA Output Current Capability
- 2.7V to 5.5V Input Voltage Range
- 1.82V Fixed Output Voltage
- Synchronous Operation
- Power-Save Mode
- Soft-Start Capability
- Input Under-Voltage Lockout (UVLO)
- Thermal Shutdown and Overload Protection

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Ipod Touch

Now this looks interesting to me!

WiFi
Safari browser
Wireless iTunes
16GB Flash storage
same dimensions as the iPhone but only 8mm thick
iPhone's multitouch screen.

Engadget's Photo Gallery

Anyone else interested!?

Looks like Apple just stepped back into the PDA business.

Palm Axes The Foleo

Ed Colligan, Palm's CEO, pulled the plug in the official blog. Ouch!

Here are the gory details.