It takes a pretty special phone-less PDA to pique our interest these days, and even though Korean manufacturer BlueBird's new Pidion BM-300 doesn't really push the envelope in areas like processor speed or screen resolution, the fact that they threw a
DMB tuner into the mix puts this model in some pretty distinguished company. Besides the
PM80 from LG, in fact, we're hard-pressed to think of another palmtop that sports a built-in digital TV receiver -- which is probably because there's little demand for this feature anywhere outside of Korea for now. Specs-wise, the WiFi- and Bluetooth-equipped BM-300 definitely comes out on top, as its 512MHz Bulverde CPU, 64MB/128MB RAM/ROM configuration and Windows Mobile 5.0 OS are all superior to what the LG model offers, though the two do share the same unfortunate 320 x 240 resolution. South Korean TV fanatics can expect these to hit stores sometime in October -- from the look of things, they need some time to polish up that design a little -- for a price that's yet to be announced.
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posted Jul 5th 2006 11:13AM
For some reason, when I saw bluebird, I read bird flu... I got quite a laugh out of that.
i have seen a few of their phones. and guess what they r pretty cool. i spotted them in india but they r not available here. neways they did seem 2 be better than nokia or samsung. but im pretty sure they really wont catch up
Who says there's no demand. Somone has to offer it for there to be demand. If someone would make one that attached to a projector via a good output resolution and an optical out that would be cool too. I have a PocketPC phone and would love to have one with an integrated GPS (and smaller form factor) with both bluetooth and wifi but that's not out either.
Okay I ramble but what I really want is a small box (very portable) with both analog and HDTV tuners with at least a 200GB hardrive with a DVD burner with HDMI out (that gets good reviews). Shoot just a small HDTV tuner and analog with hard drive and DVD player with HDMI would make me happy! I need portable!
This thing looks like crap. Am I to assume Lenovo has something to do with this device as well ?
This is a hell of a lot slimmer than my 6700 - I would get one over the 6700 if it was offered by Sprint.