The e-Loam F7: it will drive you completely insane with jealousy

Been hankering for a cheapo UMPC? Perhaps the folks at e-Loam can answer your strained prayers. Enter the F7, a VIA C7-based handheld with a 1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 8GB (or 80GB) hard drive, WiFi, and... not much else. The teensy device boots XP, has Bluetooth, a 0.3 megapixel webcam, and features a resistive 7-inch touchscreen (cool stylus included). There's not much more info on this guy right now, but based on the pictures, it appears to have stereo speakers, and Pocketables speculates there may be an optical mouse somewhere in this mix. Regardless, we spent this whole post trying to figure out how loam -- a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus -- fits into the picture.

[Via Pocketables]

[A7 Posted Jan 18th 2009 8:54PM]

yeah, the looks are "hasnt the geek heard of paper" Luckily we all use tablet pcs at my work so I dont get that (anymore) :p Been the tabuntu route for fun... handwriting recognition/learning was suckworthy. Back on a custom vlite build to make do until W7 or a swish android tablet build surfaces, whenever that is

[derekaw Posted Jan 17th 2009 3:37PM]

(cool stylus included)

You are kidding right? A wand or stick is NOT cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2009 4:24PM]

/sarcasm

[derekaw Posted Jan 17th 2009 4:34PM]

@Kevin

Phew, that was very subtle sarcasm, I thought it was serious for a minute.

[PEZ Posted Jan 17th 2009 9:02PM]

Where do I get one, how much is it, and WHEN?

[VS Dude Posted Jan 17th 2009 11:55PM]

I'm surprised nobody asked yet - can we see evidence of this thing running Windows 7?