Details flow on Linux-based Porient H12 UMPC
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 21st 2008 9:23AM
posted Sep 21st 2008 9:23AM
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Cool device, nice idea certainly. If a big company, say Apple, were to design a really nice one (nicer looking, more functional UI etc) I can't see why it wouldn't really take off. Perhaps throw in a GSM radio for good measure...
All Apple would do is put it in a rectangular aluminium box and stamp their logo on it. They would get the software side right though (as long as the people who work on iTunes are kept well away).
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@Juxtah:
Yeah, this is exactly the reason I held off buying an iPod for years. And even now, I find my iPod Touch's OS to be quite nice, but the hardware to be quite lacking.
If Apple just designed this, it would primarily be an iPod, you would surf the web WITHOUT Flash player although you could play YouTube flash video but only with their app, it wouldn't allow you to use the GPS with other maps than Google's online ones, and it would cost a fortune.
Not to mention that they would patent something inside it and have an exclusive right to build devices like that. Oh and nice interface? Don't you love Skype's one? It's done with QT (freely available on Linux).
Looks like a GPS to me...
Exactly what I was thinking.
exactly what everyone was thinking probably.
Just an oversized PDA with Linux, not an UMPC.
and there is no more Intel XScale, they are Marvell XScale...
Maybe even a MID, but definately not a UMPC. You'd think Engdadget would've learned by now; UMPC's are an actual defined category, unlike netbooks etc.
not an MID either, both UMPCs and MIDs use x86 processors
like the man said, just a big PDA, and there's been stuff like it before
Now if Archos could not be idiots and allow changes to the 5's kernel, we could have a good looking and powerful UMPC for $350
It seems that Medion is working on a german UI to rebrand this thing with their logo and market it via european discount stores.
Uh... what advantage does this have over my N810? Slightly larger screen, and that's about it?
My N810 has a qwerty keyboard though... Oh, and, I can actually use it because it's interface is available in languages like english.
I'd love something like this to have and run CDisplay to read digital comics.
The formats that CDisplay opens can also be opened with Winrar, so you can extract all of the images, and read them on just about any 800x480 portable device