HDTV in the palm of your hand?
You'll have to fly over to Japan to see this, but I haven't seen an HDTV program that wasn't worth a hellaciously long airline flight. Well, if you count Joey, I might have; technically I stopped watching it within the first five minutes, so that really doesn't count. Pixela announced a handheld device that's H.264 compatible. The form factor says phone or PDA, but the 2.7-inch screen says portable high-def.
The purists will rightly criticize if this is truly "high-def capable" or not because it's the screen res as well as the signal that cuts it; but let's not crucify this device out of the gate. Instead, let's consider it a prototype or a concept for now. Actually, it doesn't matter what you consider it; unless you live in Japan, you won't see this anyway!
Our foreign friends can expect to see this device in May of 2006 according to Pixela's site and my terrible understanding of the Japanese language. There might be other specs, but I can't tell; my translation says that the device washes windows too, so I'm not trusting anything else.
Read (Japanese) via Akihabara News
