Pocketables claims to have received leaked information about a VIA-based smartphone that will run Windows XP and Google Android at the same time, with the ability to switch between the two seemlessly. Pictures of the little prototype even have VIA written under the screen, which by the looks of it can be used in portrait or landscape mode.
Two sets of hardware are rumored to run the device, one being a 500MHz VIA Nano processor and the other not known.
This is more like a Mobile Internet Device (MID) than a phone - or perhaps sort of like a smartbook but with phone features. It's not a clamshell design but it's as good as one - the full QWERTY keyboard slides out from under the screen. From the looks of the size of it, you'd be using about two fingers though, not typing like a regular keyboard.
This news is hot off the press after VIA VP Richard Brown said in an interview that VIA would be developing "cell phone hardware". Is this what he was referring to?
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