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Engadget Japanese had an opportunity to play with Toshiba's odd little WS206T for Japanese carrier Willcom -- one of the concept devices
demoed at CES, for particularly observant readers and rabid Toshiba fans -- and came away largely unimpressed. Shoving a thin, internet-enabled tablet into an old-school leather notebook sounds cool and all, but the problem is that the hardware's weak -- the screen's smaller than it could be, Willcom's PHS network tops out at just a few hundred kbps, there's no voice calling, and it runs some weird widget-based custom UI on top of Windows CE. What's more, it's a single-touch resistive display, and the UI's said to be annoyingly inconsistent. On the upside, it'll only run ¥2980 (about $30) a month for unlimited data, including the cost of the hardware itself, when it launches later this month -- just don't expect a product that's going to change your life and win you friends.
posted Apr 15th 2009 9:02AM
Damn, and I thought for $30 a month I'd finally have a few friends.
$30?! That's a bargain!
so basically like an iPhone , except u can't make calls.
No thanks I'll pass.
Does it come with the words "Don't Panic" printed in large, friendly letters on the cover?
I can't even store paper in a six-hole punched binder without an edge ripping.
when can i get one for my SKETCH BOOK?
tomo