Wow! Is This The Pocket Penguin's Successor?

[HoloVector]

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/

[urkden]

I've just seen it and it's incredible. If specs keep real on release date... I'll have no excuse and give my Zauri a new big brother.

[dhns]

Oops.
You missed to cite the most important specs:

163 x 67 x 24.5-mm / 387-gram brick

Someone else might want to carry that around for me. A C3200 is already at or above the upper limits.

-- hns

[adf]

Oops.
You missed to cite the most important specs:

163 x 67 x 24.5-mm / 387-gram brick

Someone else might want to carry that around for me. A C3200 is already at or above the upper limits.

-- hns

it can go in a holster

If it shows up for $500 that would be very interesting.  Bet it doesn't.

[HoloVector]

Oops.
You missed to cite the most important specs:

163 x 67 x 24.5-mm / 387-gram brick

Someone else might want to carry that around for me. A C3200 is already at or above the upper limits.

-- hns

Thanks for the exact measurements which I hadn't seen yet.  However I knew it was pretty thick from the pics which is why I said, "Too bad someone hit too many times with the ugly stick and it kinda swelled up something fierce."    

I highly doubt I would buy one of these.  It is just too fugly for me.  

[speculatrix]

it is a bit of a monster, isn't it. they definitely added every feature they could think of and only then decided how to squeeze it into a case!

personally, and this is a bit speculative, I think that the handheld device will eventually become a thin client and only contain local bulk media storage, all the main data and processing will be done on a server somewhere... it will require ubiquitous high speed network availability. An existing example would be google mail, so we're not just using imap but a web browser and all the email processing is done by big systems.

[desertrat]

163 x 67 x 24.5-mm / 387-gram brick

Someone else might want to carry that around for me. A C3200 is already at or above the upper limits.

It's near the same size as the Psion Series 5, and I used to carry that around with me everywhere before it died and I got a Z. But that thing is sure damn ugly, and it would be acutely embarrassing holding that thing up to your face and using it as a phone  

[adf]

163 x 67 x 24.5-mm / 387-gram brick

Someone else might want to carry that around for me. A C3200 is already at or above the upper limits.

It's near the same size as the Psion Series 5, and I used to carry that around with me everywhere before it died and I got a Z. But that thing is sure damn ugly, and it would be acutely embarrassing holding that thing up to your face and using it as a phone  

Oh c'mon, its 80's sci-fi retro.  I actually kinda like the thing, but I suppose I'd use a headset with it

[speculatrix]

at least if some mugger attacked you, you could beat them to the ground with this brick  

[ofels]

at least if some mugger attacked you, you could beat them to the ground with this brick  

Ah, here comes the term touchscreen with a completely new meaning.

Oliver