It's one thing to see Photoshop upon Photoshop of a device that may or may not exist (just think of how many
iPhone concepts we got inundated with), but it's quite another to see it in the flesh. It gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling to know that the hotness you're gazing at is
something more than vaporware. Not to say spotting a handset in the wild guarantees its release --
far from it, in fact -- but still, ROAD's been offering us nothing more than ridiculously badass-looking drawings of their
Handy-PC for the past year and a half, and we can hear the collective sigh of relief from Nokia Communicator fans everywhere as they lock eyes on this first in-the-flesh shot. As we previously reported, the specs on their production quad-band S101 model leave little to be desired as folding smartphones go, with 128MB of RAM, 64MB of ROM, a 2-megapixel shooter, 400MHz of the XScale PXA263 variety, and
Qtopia's mobile Linux platform in a 210-gram package. Where do we sign up? Ahh, that's right, ROAD's site -- still no word on actual availability, but at least you can let out a little pent-up excitement by placing an "advance order."
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posted Aug 23rd 2006 9:20AM
Give me one without a Z key in place of the Y
:) This should run from $350 to 400.
what, still no wifi?
interesting...
Hi,
look at this article: http://www.komunikatory.cz/?item=po-roce-linuxovy-s101-stale-zije ... it's in czech language, but there is also response of ROAD's representative in english: Unfortunately the development of the product has been delayed due to some problems with our suppliers. We expect the first handyPC models to be available in the 4th quarter of 2006. The price for the basic model S101 will be approximately 1000 Euro + tax.
Looks cool, something like the Imate JASJAR. I like the nice big keyboard.
They have two modelnumbers for two different keyboard layouts. So don't worry about needing to swap buttons.
I would buy one if it wasn't for that irritating 'Z' for 'y' key change.
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S101 will be approximately 1000 Euro + tax? I thought the idea of using linux on a smartphone was to make it cheaper.