MIU Hybrid Dual Portable Computer – Retro looking
March 25, 2008 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements, Cellphones, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
From the land of Korea, we have this retro/brick looking Portable Computer dubbed HDPC that has ugly looking buttons. It’s sort of a PDA cum phone from MIU that boots dual OS (Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus) which will satisfy Windows haters.
It comes with a smalllish QWERTY keyboard, 4-inch display with 800×480 resolution, lasts up to 90 hours on low power mode and wireless internet functions. Don’t expect it to launch outside Korea anytime soon in July 2008.
As the name ‘HDPC’ signifies, user can converge the stand-alone technologies of existing portable devices such as car PC, navigation, mobile phone, PMP, mp3, UMPC, electronic dictionary, internet phone, PSP, digital camera, voice recorder, mobile IPTV into HDPC. The HDPC is expected to be available in July 2008, and the price would be between 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).
photo and news via aving.net
Nice concept but terrible execution. The problem is they should have modeled the shape around good clamshell designs like the old Psion Revo. This device has a terrible keyboard that is not touch type. It should actually be longer say around 7″ long and make it as thin as possible but make sure the keyboard is as large as possible to provide good touch type input.