New Handheld From Dualcor

[speculatrix]

http://www.dualcor.com/

looks like an OQO, tiqit etc killer

[speculatrix]

http://news.com.com/Start-up+merges+cell+p...l?tag=nefd.lede

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C5675/

[loc4me]

Wow, that is an amazing peice of hardware. Too bad it is running Windows XP. The price is a little steep $1500. But I think that is the coolest handheld i have seen.

[BarryW]

Too bad there's no real product yet.  I'm sure once there's a real hold it in your hands product, the price will go up.

[qx773]

The machine reportedly has two separate processors and two separate operating systems.  The Windows XP side has a Via C7 processor with 1GB of RAM.  The Windows Mobile cell phone side has an Intel Xscale processor with 128MB of RAM.  It has no built-in keyboard, though.

[ralphrmartin]

http://www.dualcor.com/

looks like an OQO, tiqit etc killer
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Are you joking? With no keyboard, its yet another toy, as far as I am concerned.

[speculatrix]

Are you joking? With no keyboard, its yet another toy, as far as I am concerned.
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it depends on whether *good* handwriting recognition is possible when linux is ported to it.

I never miss the keyboard on my palm T3, but then I use it for different things to my Z 860. I find my Z 6000's  keyboard to be a bit painful (if I'd never owned an 860 I'd probably be used to it and have stopped whinging!).

[nilch]

I thing for $1500 a PDA wihtout a keyboard is just another try at the same old thing with  more bells and whistles.

What the market is tending to move towards is ultra portable powerful computers in your hand - see the laptop market tending to move towards ultraportables and PDA's moving towards computers. So anything without a keyboard and with handwriting recognition tends to be just another powerful PDA, which is not worth the steep price tag.

I mean would anyone buy a tablet without a keyboard just to handwrite and jot some notes on it with WinXP loaded on it for the price that tablets go for these days ? I guess not - which bears out the failure of the tablet market to take off. On the other hand tablets ARE making a slow comeback in the form of ultraportables  but with dual input methods - keyboard and handwriting together.

[TsingTao]

Looks like an evolutionary step up from the OQO...spec wise anyway.  Having two processors and running as both a straight PDA and a straight tablet machine is an interesting concept (and particularly useful for the indecisive).  Does this mean it syncs with...itself ? It's OTHER self ?

 At $1500 it's beating the OQO in price, but the lack of a keyboard rankles me as much as anyone.  But if this thing ever actually comes to market ('Flipstart', 'Magpie'...I'm looking in your direction(s)...) I'll bet someone can come up with a Nexio style add-on keyboard (handily doubling as a screen cover) and sell it for  <$400.

 A compelling device, no doubt.  I shall have to keep an eye on it.  It will be interesting to see what the next incarnation of the OQO looks like in comparison...

[ceffyl]

The Register posted an article on this on Friday. Apparently the device is supposed to be out in March.

This would be a sweet puppy if you could get it to run embedded linux and maybe another 'nix flavor on the other processor instead of Winblows.

~Ceffyl

[rokugo]

Specs aside, as a mobilephone it looks rather ugly to me.
Guess they didn't have enough budget for a product designer.

[BarryW]

I just watched a small video of an actual product.  It's quite a bit bigger than I thought it would be.  From what I've read it uses the same outlook data between the windows moble and tablet sides, no syncing needed!  It's kinda cool, but yea, it needs a keyboard.  I'm thinking one of the bluetooth stowaway keyboards would be really cool with it.