LG has mystery HSDPA QWERTY device at CES

What the? Looks like LG is entering the ultra-portable, bastardized-UMPC / MID game this week at CES. When it pops, we'll be looking at a 4.8-inch touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 40GB disk, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, and sliding QWERTY all wrapped around Intel's Menlow platform. The OS, price, and lots of other useful information is still missing.

[Lachlan @ Jan 7th 2008 3:12AM]

HELLO VIEWTY + AWESOME KEYBOARD = *AWESOME PHONE*

[Edd Mills @ Jan 7th 2008 4:23AM]

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.

[Itchy Pajamas @ Jan 7th 2008 7:32AM]

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.

[Sean Seibel @ Jan 7th 2008 7:48AM]

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.

[MS @ Jan 7th 2008 8:25AM]

Looks like a shot of Pearl Harbor to me. Very upbeat!

[Montusama @ Jan 7th 2008 9:21AM]

looks like pearl habor for me....pretty interesting how only TWO people think that...

[nVening @ Jan 7th 2008 7:58AM]

Might be a MID - ie menlow - Possibly running adobe air UI by the looks of the progress bar?? looks flash esque

[bachviet @ Jan 7th 2008 11:20AM]

Not bad at all and hopefully LG will install a hackable/3rd party apps friendly OS.

[JK @ Jan 7th 2008 3:12PM]

this is very interesting...i can't wait for more info on this thing. Any more pics?

[Johan S @ Jan 7th 2008 7:34PM]

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.

[DJ @ Jan 14th 2008 3:02AM]

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?

[Mark Hudson @ Jan 10th 2008 1:50PM]

How does this compare to the linux-running Nokia N810 mentioned at http://handhelds.engadget.com/tag/n810 ??

I bet the Nokia is smaller...