Mysterious T-swivel handset appears on Korean site, keeps us guessing
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posted December 7th 2008 3:38AM
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And a mouse pad! Looks kinda Interesting...
No, that is not a mouse pad. I assume you meant touchpad/trackpad. FAIL
@CapnShiner
Thanks for telling us you failed but good look in life.
I don't see why I'm the one getting low ranked and insulted when I'm not the one who called it a mouse pad. I admit I didn't need to put "FAIL" in my comment, but come on. There's a huge difference between a mouse pad and a trackpad/touchpad. Just picture a handheld device with a mouse pad attached. It's funny.
Lol @ people who take low rankings personally. Internet: serious business.
I upranked you because what you said is true...i just dont think it necessarily had to be said.
We low ranked you just to fu(k with you.
You just don't get it.
kidcanuck, that's what she said
is that a trackpad?
Looks like it is.
The original prototype, the "Yahoo! UMPC" had a mini joystick instead. This looks like an updated version.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=yahoo%20umpc&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
I hope it isnt... look at the size of it compared to his finger >_>;
my friend has a phone, it's a nokia I think, not sure which phone, but it has a trackpad on the directional buttons. It seems to work quite well, they adjust the sensitivity and such so it is usable.
it's a DMB phone as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting
not Dave Mathews Band.
The things that Palm needs to bring to the table, in regards to from factor, are landscape mode and the familiar one handed capabilities!This device would work. Maybe the mouse pad is to accomidate the new Palm OS2?
No the thing that Palm needs to bring to the table is an actual OS. Palm is irrelevant at this point. No one other then the remaining Palm fanbois think they are even remotely in the "game". They may still sell, but its like overal game console sales....No one gives a shit about the PS2 anymore even though they are still selling. Screw Palm.
Omnia has one, and it works pretty well! I use it in the non-default mode, where it controls a cursor.. if implemented well, it can be a really nice touch.
Yes, apparently a UMPC prototype.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://media.blogtimes.org/86&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ko&tl=en
Is it a phone?
Is it a plane?
Is it a bird?
Is this madness?
This is Sparta!!!!
Nooo... It's G2 already.
Spartans!!?? IN KOREA???? I really want this phone/plane/bird now!
no it's superman
ohh man not him again...
I wish it was a phone, or you know anything you can leave at home and never try to put in your pocket because people, wake up, this thing must weight over 300 g !
it's a FAT phone.
Is that a mini touchpad under the QWERTY?
looks kinda like an older i-mate etc.(the rebranded HTC Win-Mo phones)
holy ugly!
I think the term you are looking for is fugly
(http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/fugly)
Maybe if I was a noob.
maybe if you were "Proffesional [sic] - Fusion Fuzo"
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/06/bellperre-adds-silver-and-golden-collection-to-capitalize-on-b/
http://www.engadget.com/profile/2388656/
Look the at the "P" in the keyboard, it's a Palm device: you can see the small icon that indicates the function to change the screen bright... it's exactly the same layout of my treo!!!!!
Well, who knows, maybe the new centro!
Are Palm devices manufactured in Korea? Since when does Palm use a trackball(if that's actually a tracfkball and not just a button)?
I don't know, that little symbol on the P key doesn't convince me that this is a Palm device. Pretty much everything else about it is completely different from anything Palm has released in the past. If it does end up being a Palm device, I will be very surprised. This would be a radically new direction for them.
I was just thinking, it has the exact same keyboard layout. Even the alt-functions, from what I can see, are the same. Weird.
Looks like the poster "LiveFaith" has another of "his" designs realized:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa125/livefaith/Roteo.jpg
linked from the TreoCentral post:
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showpost.php?p=1523383&postcount=5
Just noticed what appears to be a body crack across the "top" of the unopened device - further "proof" that it's a Palm device!
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=173784
I found the eejit!
Yes, Palm Devices are Made in Korea. Heck if you set your way back machine, Taiwan, China, Japan for a Time and Korea.
Do your research.
This is most likely a prototype of the next Palm Device aka Quatro.
Also it will be on the new Palm II OS. Not Garnet or ALP.
That means compatible with the old Palm OS devices for apps. But the cleaner newer look and feel of ALP. Aka the Edlewies
I wonder who thought to themselves, "You know what? The only thing wrong with a phone in landscape mode is the keyboard is too wide! Let's figure out a way to make a landscape phone with a narrow keyboard! THAT's what consumers want!"
Correct, there is not 1 good reason i can think of to have a rotation layout like this phone to exist when a landscape-sliding one can exist in the same universe.
Also, this thing looks HUGE, see the guys hand!
It is pretty big and is it just me or does it look very thick too? It makes me wonder if this may not be a phone but some weird MID or UMPC running Windows XP/Vista or something. I just don't see the obligatory "Windows key" on the keypad anywhere.
Except that I doubt it's a phone.
Article is plastered with the words, UMPC. It also mentions MID's.
It largely states why UMPC's are failures in that they're:
1. Weak performance
2. Poor battery life
3. More or about as expensive as a notebook
4. The market for UMPC's is limited; market strategy for UMPCs, netbooks are "unknown." Meaning we're familiar with where our notebooks will be headed, but not with UMPCs, MIDs, etc.
Anyhoos, thats what I took of the article with my horrible 2nd grade Korean profiency and Live Translator. :P
@BlissX
Oh ya, you're right. I don't know any Korean or even have the language pack installed, but I still see MID, UMPC, Netbook, and Atom in English in the text and the other pictured devices are not phones, except maybe the Anycall branded ones.
Still, I wonder...
Actually that's just a guy with a really small hand.
> ...some weird MID or UMPC running Windows XP/Vista or something...
If it's Palm's predicted-sometime-in-1st-half-2009 "device" (they didn't predict a phone explicitly, I don't think!) then it's running their predicted-by-end-of-THIS-month "Nova" (Linux) OS.
This is what I'm having trouble understanding. Why not just have it slide out, and why the trackpad, why not use a touchscreen? This just seems like something that would have been cool 10 years ago.
The narrow keyboard enable one-handed use for when you have a drink or bag or baby in your other hand. For quick replies and short tasks it's amazingly usefull to not have to put every thing down. If this device is balanced properly, it should be a decent solution to the one-handed/QWERTY/large screen conundrum.
I vote for Palm....