Trigem's Atom-based LLUON Mobbit crashes below the $500 UMPC sweet spot

You know what we could really use right now? A chunky slab of XP running on a device that is simultaneously too big for our pockets but less functional than a netbook. Oh, what's that Trigem, you've got that? Suweet. Meet the LLUON Mobbit PS400, an Atom Z520-powered UMPC MID with a 4.8-inch (1,024 x 600) touchscreen LCD, 2 megapixel camera, 1GB memory, choice of 30GB hard disk or 16GB SSD, WiFi, and Korean WiMax (WiBro) and digital television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price (the similarly-speced R50A from ASUS costs over $1,800). If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the pricing goal set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late.

[Via Akihabara News and CNET]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2008 4:54AM]

I bet that's not the G spo......er sweet spots he thinking of.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2008 6:20AM]

... but can it make phone calls?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2008 6:31AM]

Finally, the dropping price of won made Microsoft's dream come true

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2008 8:02AM]

what about graphics?? can it play morrowind? that would be super nice!

[Galley Posted Dec 4th 2008 9:40AM]

#1 on my "bucket list": Make it with a hot Asian chick.

[kamenwati Posted Dec 4th 2008 12:45PM]

hmm slim it down, take out unnecessary radios and put in gsm/hsdpa/cdma, swap out XP for a more useful operating system one that matches the hardware (Android/WM7) a little multi-touch for the folks and bam instant awesome smartphone

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2008 3:49PM]

If it had HSPA and a front mounted cam for chatting I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I guess with BT I could run it tethered.

[montusama Posted Dec 4th 2008 7:04PM]

SO I see the pic and am like "the first 10 comments will have something about the hot chick" but i'm wrong, it's the first one....btw decent umpc I would say

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 10:19PM]

good!