DualCor cPC: Pocket PC Phone Edition and Tablet PC in one!
December 16, 2005 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.
This device may change the way we look at notebooks, BlackBerries, Pocket PCs and Smartphones, and many other mobile devices as a whole!
- It's a true hybrid Pocket PC and Tablet PC device, running both Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, respectively.
- It's target price is $1500 and they will offer volume discounts. Think of the price of the Universal plus $500 or so, but with much more functionality.
- It's scheduled for release in March 2006 around CES, comparatively very soon to market!
- If this files, this could blow away the entire OQO line and the Vulcan FlipStart PC, both of which are just handtop PCs with an average/estimated price of $2000, respectively. The OQO is already out (sporting mediocre battery life) and the FlipStart PC still remains vaporware.
- The 1.5GHz VIA processor would prove sufficient while maintaining good battery life, and the Windows Mobile side has an Intel PXA (XScale processor)
- While most Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC devices have 64 to 128MB of Flash ROM, this device will have 1GB of FlashROM for the OS, not to mention the 40GB hard drive, the 128MB of RAM, and the (separate?) 1GB of memory for its PC side. Now that's a lot of space!
- Its dimensions are 6.5 x 3.3 x 1.2 inches. In comparison, the Universal's dimensions are very roughly 5 x 3 x 0.8 (using a ruler to measure mine). It will be bigger than the largest Pocket PC Phone Edition, but the tradeoff of PC functionality and the likelihood of Bluetooth implementation for headset use may be worth the difference.
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Credit: Raphael Salgado from BeyondtheTech.com.
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