http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Thanks for telling us you failed but good look in life.]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 12th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
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]]>Dec 7th 2008 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/_>;]]>Dec 7th 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting

not Dave Mathews Band.]]>Dec 7th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 8th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://media.blogtimes.org/86&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ko&tl=en
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it's a FAT phone.]]>Dec 8th 2008 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/(http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/fugly)]]>Dec 7th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/06/bellperre-adds-silver-and-golden-collection-to-capitalize-on-b/
http://www.engadget.com/profile/2388656/]]>Dec 8th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Well, who knows, maybe the new centro!]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
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.]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa125/livefaith/Roteo.jpg

linked from the TreoCentral post:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showpost.php?p=1523383&postcount=5
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http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=173784
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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]]>Dec 8th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
Also, this thing looks HUGE, see the guys hand!]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
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]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/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...]]>Dec 7th 2008 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/Dec 7th 2008 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/ ...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.
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