The Vulcan Flipstart
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Today Engadget posted a hands-on piece about the Vulcan Flipstart “handheld PC.” They didn’t offer a price, but for the dearth of features that it offers, I’d hope to see it somewhere under $500. I really can’t find much good in it. It’s bulky, it’s slow, the screen doesn’t look bright, and its screen resolution looks to be about 800x600, which isn’t really practical these days.
The story goes, that this piece of tech-junk was announced in 2003, and they just never delivered, until now. Well, this makes me think that the features and the components and design were set in stone back then, but now in 2007 they’re all just about obsolete. Hell, the thing even offers an RJ-11 jack for modem connection. All this thing needs is a hand crank and it’d go perfect with the line of OLPCs designed for remote areas in third-world countries.
The kicker, is on the same day as this review, came some news about a new Samsung handheld PC. In comparison to the Vulcan’s 512MB of RAM, 30GB hard drive, and 800x600 washed out screen, the Samsung Q2 offers up 1GB of RAM, a 100GB hard drive, and a brilliant 1024x600 wide-touch-screen. The Samsung also gets my vote on design.
I guess the lesson to be learned here, is that a concept that includes top of the line hardware, just doesn’t hold up after 4 years.
(Pictures via Engadget)
1 comment:
Not really into either of them. Sure, the Samsung handheld PC looks nice, but it's not practical in the least. What's up with the "keyboard"? Bad design all around. Who buys these things anyway besides tech enthusiasts? I wish I knew.
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