LG has mystery HSDPA QWERTY device at CES
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 7th 2008 2:31AM
posted Jan 7th 2008 2:31AM
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HELLO VIEWTY + AWESOME KEYBOARD = *AWESOME PHONE*
This looks really good. LG have brought out quite a few quality products of late so hopefully this will be another; the UMPC market could do with something exemplary to show its use.
this is very interesting...i can't wait for more info on this thing. Any more pics?
Interesting-looking device. I hope it's more phone-like, and not a clunky "tiny PC", like the OQO and Sony UX.
Too bad they had to show such a violent scene on its screen. Bunnies and flowers would have been much nicer.
Is it just me... But I find the choice of video screenshot to be very strange. It looks like a shipwreck or some type of disaster.
Looks like a shot of Pearl Harbor to me. Very upbeat!
looks like pearl habor for me....pretty interesting how only TWO people think that...
Might be a MID - ie menlow - Possibly running adobe air UI by the looks of the progress bar?? looks flash esque
Not bad at all and hopefully LG will install a hackable/3rd party apps friendly OS.
Since they cant make it LCD, why not make it an OLED keyboard? And, whats the point of the huge margin space at the sides of the LCD .. if they needed the space for circuitry they could have made the phone longer instead .. making the phone wider makes the phone harder to handle because it's difficult to clasp and harder to fit in pocket.
Presumably you're not going to have the keyboard open all the time to hold on to, so when viewing media I wouldn't really want my hands in front of the sides of the screen, that's where the goals will be! Especially given it's touch screen. And as for the phone being difficult to hold, what phone?
How does this compare to the linux-running Nokia N810 mentioned at http://handhelds.engadget.com/tag/n810 ??
I bet the Nokia is smaller...