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The ROAD S101/S101K Linux smartphone of the future

ROAD S101/S101K

Mix one heaping cup of Nokia 9500 knockoff with two tablespoons of HTC MDA IV ripoff, and a few pinches of product mockup, and you've got yourself ROAD's (Remote Office Access Devices—yeah, we don't know them either) S101/S101K. They list the quad-band GSM Linux/Qtopia-based handset as having MP3 playback software (and dedicated keys), an email app, a nice, wide 640 x 240 pixel touchscreen, optional 2-megapixel kamera (hence the S101K), WiFi, Bluetooth, IrDA, mini-USB port, SD slot, 400MHz Xscale CPU, and 64MB RAM and ROM. So yeah, you could say we're considering calling bs on this thing; but besides finding that industrial design a bit contrived, if nothing else we have a feeling these are pre-manufacture specs, wherein they'll play the "let's see how many of our published features we can actually shoehorn in there" game we all know and love so well, especially since they seem to think they can make this phone a mere 5 x 2.36 x 0.98-inches. And besides, what kind of Linux phone has a Windows key and runs Outlook? Sheesh.

[Via Slashdot]