raon everun

i just discovered what may be my favorite umpc yet. she’s not the prettiest, but she’s fully featured, nice form factor*, and you can get her with a 32gig solid state drive. due out in south korea in june/july for about $800, closer to $1000 to import one.

4.8″ touchscreen, 800×480. 568 mhz processor, 512mb of ram, two mini hdd bays; you can get 30-60 gig standard and/or 6-32 gig solid state. stereo speakers, headphone jack, bluetooth to a headset. wifi, cellular modem option, usb mini and usb 2.0.

d-pad and function keys on the left side, clickable optical mouse and a backlit mini qwerty along the right side. keys are labelled diagonally so they’re readable and usable in portrait or landscape modes. keyboard includes numerical row along top. function-click the optical mouse to right-click on things.

motion sensor ala the iphone, automatically rotates the screen as you rotate the device round and round, no button presses needed. want a left-handed model and don’t mind the keys being labelled upside down? just spin it 180 degrees and you have one. want the d-pad on the bottom for e-book reading? reverse portrait mode so the keyboard is on top, bam.

battery life supposed to get at least six hours full-use to a charge, so if it’s in standby most of the day, you charge every night and you’re good all day. and you can swap in the higher capacity battery as well.

she won’t fit in your back pocket, and she’s not going to run crysis, but get firefox and itunes on there and you’re good to go.

lots of pictures on a korean webstore, a youtube about using it one-handed, umpc.com’s video preview parts one and two, and of course, someone loaded up quake 3.

meanwhile, someone who doesn’t get it compares the everun handheld to a sub-notebook with double the specs, and declares that handhelds are not as good as sub-notebooks at pretending to be an ibook.

*she’s got a shape to her!