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Originally Posted by MsAnthrope
Engadget recently wrote about Paul Allen's flipstart umpc at flipstart.com. It's the size of a paperback, built-in keyboard, usb ports, Sprint evdo ready. RAM at 512MB isn't great but CPU is 1.1 GHz. It comes with XP or Vista and runs MS compatible apps. Battery life is only 3-6 hours. The price was just halved to 699 USD. I don't know what that might portend. Wikipedia has more info and links to different reviews. This seems to fit the bill for a pocket-portable PC but you'd probably have to carry an extra battery.
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Flipstart has the wrong form factor as it is too wide to be jacket pocket size and uses a thumb input. To me that is why sales were so weak they had to cut prices 50% to get rid of them. For a thumb input the OQO is better but both are not good enough for mainstream users to want to buy them. Most people would never want to thumb input into full windows programs, etc.