side note: the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will have all the features of this (winmo 6.1 pro, 3 meg camera, qwerty keybboard) and be a LOT smaller and lighter, with a usable keyboard, with the only sacrifice being a smaller screen
Because you can't make cellular phonecalls from an eee without significant mods/hacks and spending. Not to mention having to connect this and that to the eee to make phonecalls. Second of all, the 7501 can easily fit into a pocket, just like a umpc or a pda, the eee can't. But maybe you were being sarcastic.
Either way, I agree that it's an odd device. The pricepoint puts it a bit above a typical smartphone (which can do most of what this can do, mind you) but it includes Windows Mobile Pro. so it's not as capable as a umpc with Vista/XP. So in summary, it can make and receive calls, store and play a bunch of music and videos without external storage and run windows mobile apps (which are few and far between) - it's kind of like a 'glorified' PMP or a true PDA with cell capability (glorified a la, big nice screen, ability to make and receive phonecalls, use wifi and surf the internet). It seems to be more of a PDA of today than a smartphone at all.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"Direct quotes:
"it's not a mobile phone replacement"
"it's somewhere between a PDA and a UMPC"
so why not get an EEE for less that half the price?
side note: the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will have all the features of this (winmo 6.1 pro, 3 meg camera, qwerty keybboard) and be a LOT smaller and lighter, with a usable keyboard, with the only sacrifice being a smaller screen
and the nokie e90 already has these features
HTC Kaiser... (minus the VGA screen)
The HTC Raphael will have all of it though.
like what you just quoted:
"it's somewhere between a PDA and a UMPC"
so is EEE sitting between them? No.
Because you can't make cellular phonecalls from an eee without significant mods/hacks and spending. Not to mention having to connect this and that to the eee to make phonecalls.
Second of all, the 7501 can easily fit into a pocket, just like a umpc or a pda, the eee can't. But maybe you were being sarcastic.
Either way, I agree that it's an odd device. The pricepoint puts it a bit above a typical smartphone (which can do most of what this can do, mind you) but it includes Windows Mobile Pro. so it's not as capable as a umpc with Vista/XP. So in summary, it can make and receive calls, store and play a bunch of music and videos without external storage and run windows mobile apps (which are few and far between) - it's kind of like a 'glorified' PMP or a true PDA with cell capability (glorified a la, big nice screen, ability to make and receive phonecalls, use wifi and surf the internet). It seems to be more of a PDA of today than a smartphone at all.