We were really hoping to see some wild Android devices at CES, and while we did see
one or
two interesting applications, we sadly missed Compulab's crazy exeda. Ostensibly designed for the enterprise market, the squared-off handheld features a 3.5-inch sun-readable VGA touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, and a capacitive touchpad that acts as a mouse. Like other recent Asian Android handsets
we've seen, the exeda can also boot Windows Mobile 6.1 on its 520MHz Marvell CPU and 128MB of RAM, and the radio setup is similarly flexible -- resellers can pick from quadband GSM / GPRS, CDMA, and 3G UMTS. Craziest of all? The exeda has a 10/100Base-T Ethernet port in addition to WiFi. Yeah, we want one. No details on pricing, but hopefully we'll find out more when it hits in March.
[Thanks, James R.]
posted Jan 13th 2009 1:28PM
Fugly
Relax...It's only meant to be a bar code scanner for Sam's Club.
Ethernet port o_O
Wait!
It's really supposed to look like this?
Maybe it's just me, but that looks very unusable. Unless you have very tiny fingers.
That's a 3.5" touchscreen.
I'm still trying to figure out the logic of two separate pads to control Up/Down and Left/Right.
I'm pretty sure we have the technology to do both in a single pad.
Thats the actually size.
Ever heard of Etch-a-Sketch? ;)
This would be an awesome little data center troubleshooting tool, especially with that Ethernet port. If it's more than $199 I don't know if it would be worthwhile.
Completely agree!!! With Remote Desktop softwaqre for WinMo 6.1 it is your work computer on the go!
And it doesn't matter how ugly it looks. It has a great potential to be better than Blackberry for at least some corporate users (excluding Blackberry fans, of course).
I want one. I am ready to pay up to $400 for it.
Beyond $300 Id say its wasting money...... Id love this for my inventory room that has wireless but no where to put a desktop..... Remotely do some inventory.....
Keys are a tad small though....
There are WinMo support...
There are also Ctrl and Alt keys...
So...
Where is the DEL-key?! How does this supposed to work without it?
Do you see that "BACKSPACE" key on the left of the "P" key?
I mean on the right of the "P" key.
But why 2 CTRL and 2 ALT keys on a keyboard THAT small?
I don't mean erasing the text. I just mean the magic (for MS) ctrl+alt+del combo ;)
That's quite and impressive device.
It looks like the Asian market will the first market to fully experiment with Android its possibilities.
Looks like a Speak-N-Spell.
That is beast.
Listen, I was pretty excited about Android (though I'm now bonerific for the Palm Pre), but if Google doesn't do some sort of quality control on the phones that use it, it's going to be a bust.
First the G1 and then this hideous beast?
So you don't mean quality control. You mean LOOKS control.
Its open source you tit, anyone can use it. *Anyone*.
But of course. Software is incredibly vain, and gets very upset if it's not run on an aesthetically pleasing platform.
I guess that's the good and bad with open source, anyone can 'whore' it. Suddenly the G1 no longer looks all that unique, I think the point BlackFag79 were making.
So, was it ever offered as a fashion device, or one with some interesting features?
I miss the good old days when tech guys could give a shite about looks.
(quietly appreciates they beauty of a TRS-80)
Wait, the digital and analog clocks almost match. Isn't there some Android internal memo forbidding that?
I think it has potential ... the keypad needs some desperate work, but the rest of it is quite nice. I like the quad band, too. Would be nice for me as I have VZW back in the USA through my parents but live in Europe.
the reason it will hit asian markets first/only is because it would never sell in the US. an ethernet port? they should call this thing OLcellphone for 3rd world countries
Ugly as shit, but it has a freakin ethernet port!
On a phone!
do want!
now!
Or maybe not, but still, its an interesting concept.
one word: Ewww!
+_=
Hehe...
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You moron.
Two digital d-pads and buttons on the back please!
how the hell thick will it be to accommodate an ethernet port??
Everyone talks about having an enormous iPod Touch -- everyone -- and yet no one wants an enormous Blackberry -ish non-phone device?
Oh wait, it is a phone. Even better. It's a Blackberry on the cheap. But instead of push email from some fancy server, it's from Google.
Imagine leaving the West and going to a parallel dimension, where the things you're used to are either slightly bigger or slightly smaller, both strangely familiar and disturbingly different.
That parallel dimension is the other hemisphere.
If that's a 3.5" screen, then that thing's massive. And it perfectly explains the ethernet port. Wouldn't be surprised to find a parallel printer port or two lurking at the top.
Uhh... Ethernet--- for a mobile phone. Am I missing something? o_O
Late in the 21st century's first decade, somewhere in a Chinese sweatshop, what used to be the abominable ooze flowing from the pirated rendering app of a talentless 14-year-old Mac-fanboy dreaming up an Apple "concept device" prior to Macworld finally becomes injection-molded into reality.
You might want to do something about that first sentence:
"We were really hoping some wild Android devices at CES, and while we"
You were really hoping...to see
You were really hoping some wild Android devices would show up ...
You were really hopping some wild Android devices... (in which case you would all be a bunch of weirdos)
Which is it?
this is the ugliest smartphone I have ever seen
Bad photoshopping. Should have reduced the size of the clock and icons to be in VGA.
Good lord someone should beat this thing up with one ugly stick. Geez, it comes with Ethernet lol, maybe another one might come with an express card slot in the future
One clock says 7:36, one clock says 7:37.
Shenanigans.
you could fly the space shuttle with those softkeys...
FYI Compulab is Israeli not Asian. They usually make industrial components so I wouldn't expect them to release this to consumers.
That's an ugly handset with a confusing and "too-busy" button layout.
It's an "Enterprise device" not a phone. Now I don't know what an Enterprise device is but I know what some of our customers want to talk to/test equipment in the field.
Support for the various equipment interfaces which include; USB, WiFi, Ethernet and *serial*. Remember serial, well it isn't dead, theres a lot of equipment still uses it, so it's good to see a device that supports it directly again.
Screen and keyboard are okay but the next big query has to be, What's the battery life ?