Trigem's $500 LLUON Mobbit MID goes on sale, wackiness ensues

Hard to believe but after three years (almost to the day) a MID / UMPC running a Microsoft OS with a $500 MSRP is finally out for retail. Trigem's LLUON mobbit is available in two configurations of which the lesser lists for KRW699,000 or about $490. A KRW799,000 ($560) presumably adds the listed WiBro spec for Korean style WiMaxing. That meager sum takes home a 13.2-ounce box o' XP with 1GB of memory, a 30GB disk, 4.8-inch 1,024 x 600 touchscreen with stylus, Bluetooth, WiFi, and 2 megapixel camera all riding Intel's Atom Z520 processor. Not bad... not beautiful by any stretch but significant enough to elicit maniacal behavior amongst devoted UMPC fanboys everywhere.

Update: It appears that the WiBro model is actually the cheaper of the two. The lower price resulting from a required 18 month subscription.

[Via CNET Asia]

[eggothewaffle @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:03AM]

The guy on the right looks like he just caught the biggest invisible fish evar.

[Like_A_Glove @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:48AM]

Since it's invisible, I can't really tell if you're right, but judging by his facial expression, I think he's just begging for candy:

"Gimme you candy, come on, my mouth is wide open. throw it, throw it to me. just cause I'm nuts, don't mean I don't want candy. CANDY!"

[AT7 @ Jan 23rd 2009 9:59AM]

I dunno about fish, but he is aching for a "HEY I SELL PROSTITUTES!!!" speech ballon beside him :p

[OneLove @ Jan 23rd 2009 1:41PM]

I never really got the blonde asian look

[connmanic @ Jan 24th 2009 11:44PM]

Those guys are on a comedy show in Korea, I had a foreign exchange student who always had it on. I watched it without subtitles, its all in Korean, and still laughed my head off. The blond guy is hilarious.

[Gad Get @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:06AM]

ROFLwaffle!

[Gad Get @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:10AM]

Sorry, that was meant as a reply to eggothewaffle.

[Tarnation @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:19AM]

Just make sure you put some awesome sauce on your roflwaffle.

[alej469 @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:07AM]

However good that thing is, it's never going to be as good as that picture

[Eddie @ Jan 23rd 2009 9:17AM]

This, my friend, is a fact.

[Rakar @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:20AM]

TITTY SAMBO

[Deed @ Jan 23rd 2009 5:44PM]

YA YA YA

TITTY SAMBO

[allenvanhellen @ Jan 23rd 2009 6:21AM]

Come to SK and see those guys ALL OVER the place! They're pretty funny.

[KIA @ Jan 24th 2009 4:49PM]

surely SK stands for Slovakia!

...kidding!

[Relyt @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:16AM]

Interface looks strangely familiar to the Cowon O2's...

[Roncore @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:23AM]

i don't know what it is...but i want it.

[Greg Mcp @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:31AM]

Lloun and Mobbit! China's WACKIEST comedy duo!

[ran @ Jan 23rd 2009 11:56AM]

What part of Korean did you miss?

[grillface @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:48AM]

Isn't that MC Yoo?

Funny guy ^__^

[James Albert @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:53AM]

Great news for South Korea... but What about the US????... I could probably get a cousin or an uncle to buy me one over there...but I want to go to a website or a store and Buy one... Grrrrr. We would like a $500 dollar MID... not a $1000 or $1800 with all the necessary extras...

[Ryan Trevisol @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:08AM]

I don't know why WiBro is funny, but it is. I think it means we're officially out of wireless spec acronyms.

I'm waiting for WiFe the Wireless tech that uses the magnetic properties of iron to attract signal.

[Stan @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:12AM]

The guy on the left reminds me of Bill something guy in the Gates family..
Maybe it's just my eyes.

[gonintendo @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:13AM]

Cannot unsee!!!

[webon @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:37AM]

they cant be GAYER!... not that thats a bad thing

[Boards of Canada @ Jan 23rd 2009 8:50AM]

I want that.

[edzy @ Jan 23rd 2009 9:23AM]

first thought: "they like to mobbit mobbit."

[phil park @ Jan 23rd 2009 10:24AM]

two of the best korean entertainers these days.. i think the one on the left won multiple awards this year.

[Jon Acheson @ Jan 23rd 2009 10:27AM]

I can't help but see these guys as a Korean version of the old "Wild and Crazy Guys" sketch Steve Martin used to do on SNL.

[Matt Peckham @ Jan 23rd 2009 11:28AM]

I'm gonna pully out my Joey Tribbiani vests from the back of the closet... they are back in style again BoyEEE!

[JWC @ Jan 23rd 2009 11:32AM]

Maybe this product isn't from Japan, but I love this poster anyway and it seems apt: http://www.1984web.com/img/funny/posters/countries/japan.jpg

[capissen @ Jan 23rd 2009 7:45PM]

Wow...Trigem. I had no idea they were still around. Hope their MIDs are better than the hard drives they used to make.

Dating myself here, I know.

[sandusky @ Jan 23rd 2009 11:09PM]

@ Phil Park

Yes, that is popular MC, Yoo jae Suk & the blonde guy is comedian, Noh hung chul who was attacked & stabbed by a rabid fan last year.

[Judy @ Jan 23rd 2009 11:31PM]

omg yoo jae suk and noh hong chul made it on to engadget...