The problem with your product not existing is that it's hard to make money off of it, and after a while, would-be buyers start to hate you and everything you stand for. On the plus side, redesign costs hover near zero, so why not play around and shoot for the moon with wild specs that we'll likely never have the opportunity to own? As far as we can tell, South Korea's MIU is no closer to launching its do-everything
HDPC than it was a year and a half ago -- and if anything, they've actually managed to regress a bit since they actually
had a real live prototype back then. Anyway, the latest round of virtu-changes gives us a larger primary display that's up to 1024 x 600 (we'll take all the resolution we can get since the $900 flavor is supposed to run XP), a grand total of three cameras, integrated GPS, HDMI out, and a T-DMB tuner. Strangely, the MID's phone face has taken on a distinctly
E90 accent, right down to the inexplicable
S60 screen shot used in the mockup -- but rest assured, you'll be able to buy, sell, and buy an E90 again before you'll be able to get your paws on the HDPC, which MIU says it's shopping around to distributors. We're keeping our easily-dashed hopes in check.
posted Aug 25th 2009 4:23AM
It looks hideous, i preferred the old design.
What i want to know is how does that screen work. If it works like the E90 you flip it up and your presented with the main screen and keyboard....but on two of those images youve got the main screen facing up and sliding wtf.
I wouldnt buy one even if they did end up finally shipping them. Doing anything other than short emails and text messaging on a screen that small is excruciating. I hate surfing the web on my iPhone and im assuming this will have a screen around the 4 inch mark as well. Oh and 1024x600 resolution? Time to book an appointment with the optometrist cause your gonna need glasses soon.
Looks horrible
It looks like a Sidekick.
That was the first thing I thought, that it looks like a sidekick that took the kind of performance enhancing drugs that'll get you disqualified from an ugly contest.
Looks to me like you can flip the screen back in and just use it as a touchpad.
I, for one, love it. But I never saw the old design. This one doesn't bother me. On the contrary... I've never lusted after a phone this hard since I saw the Samsung Exclaim (which I'm sure is a piece of crap, but still. PRETTY). I doubt I'd ever be able to afford this. Oh well.