Chumby specs, pricing information emerges
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Jun 25th 2007 1:29PM
posted Jun 25th 2007 1:29PM
It's hard to believe that it was nearly a year ago that we first got our hands on the lovable, customizable Chumby, but it's true. Well, apparently the Chumby still has a few months to go until an official release (it'll be available to "insiders" in August, and to the public this fall), but at least now we know the real specs and pricing of the device: the Chumby will ship for $179.99, and will come with a 350MHz ARM processor, 64MB of RAM, a built-in microphone, a built-in accelerometer, a cleaner case and internals than we'd seen from the pre-production model, all alongside the 320 x 240 3-inch screen, two USB ports, 2W speakers, and WiFi that we'd already seen. Now, as the saying goes, all we've gotta do is wait.
YAY!!
I was wondering what the latest was... this has almost turned in the latest vaporware release.
Well, it's not vaporware. I have one. I'll be dorking around in the lab with it tomorrow. I am pretty interested to see what sort of widgets are available. :-)
Is this the big kickoff year of open hardware? OpenMoko is coming out in fall, too.
wait, is the memory expandable?
It's going to show ads?
Count me out.
Cute format, but an ASUS EeePC for $199 makes much more sense...
100% correct -- 320x240 screen is going to be useless. Heck, take a Nokia N770 or N800 instead. More bang for the buck -- and it's available NOW.
Why quote some random (and wrong) blog for this information?
The official blog http://chumby.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/launch-plans-and-product-features/
says they'll be releasing a round of betas in the next couple of weeks and distributing to the public late summer.
Who is Dylan Field and why should I trust his word over Chumby Industries'?
Maybe Dylan Field is a Chum of Chumby?
The first beta is for employees only.
w0o! yAy!!! i'm putting back the fundage now!
its just another neato gadget, but i wanna crack him/her open and see what i can do!
Complete with Flash Lite 3!!!