Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/viewsonic-vpc08-mid-phone-appears-on-video-fails-to-steal-xppho/
Maybe it's all the talk of the
ITG xpPhone that's made
ViewSonic's VPC08 come out of hiding, but the phone/MID contraption is finally making a video appearance and revealing why it's so damn thick. Unlike the xpPhone the VPC08 is actually an ordinary feature phone with a 2-inch display stuck on top of an Atom Z500-powered 4.3-inch MID. Uh, innovative? Not so much since it doesn't appear that the two work in conjunction, but we do know that the phone supports EV-DO, and that the MID portion packs
512MB RAM, an 8GB SSD with Windows XP, and WiFi. For those that are at all interested in holding this mega-device up to an ear, it looks like it will be sold only in China for
a whopping 4800 Yuan ($705). No word if that price includes pants with extra-large pockets. We'll be waiting for the
Moorestown-powered LG GW990 to get Atom in a phone, but we do urge you to check out this beast of a "phone" in action in the video after the break.
Continue reading ViewSonic VPC08 MID/phone appears on video, fails to steal xpPhone's thunder
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