Samsung trotted out a non-working prototype of the SPH-9000 UMPC in New York City today. It’s a folding computer (did someone say… origami?) that will put all your attempts to attach a mobile keyboard to a PDA or cellphone to shame. The kicker is that it comes with a teensy weensy handset that piggybacks on the terminal’s EV-DO/WiMax uplink. But there are as many questions as answers about this one.
https://gizmodo.com/cebit-06-hands-on-video-of-the-origami-ui-159621
Here are the answers:
It’s going to be outfitted with:
* A 5-inch, roughly 800×480 display
* CDMA EV-DO
* Mobile WiMax (WiBro in South Korea)
* Windows XP
* Bluetooth
* 1.3 Megapixel camera on the display
It’s 5.6 × 3.7 × 1.17 inches and 1.28 pounds. Available in Korea in Q1 2007 and cost under $2K. It will be in the states in, um, your dreams.
What we don’t know:
* Processor speed or type (no one from Samsung confirmed the rumored 1GHz Transmeta CPU)
* Hard drive size or specs (no one from Samsung would confirm earlier reports of a 30GB hard drive)
* Whether it supports external memory
* Whether it actually works
Those unknowns didn’t stop us from drooling over this origami-like beauty. Damn, I said origami again.
https://gizmodo.com/origami-heres-the-real-thing-165773
Porn Gallery of the Samsung SPH-P9000 – the real Origami UMPC [SlashGear]
