Got nine friends who want a MID?

If you can get together a group of 10 people who want a 5.6" MID that runs Windows XP then you can place an order with Shenzen's manufacturer of the HT560. This little device doesn't fit nice and neatly into any particular device category.

"It has 1GB RAM, 16GB SDD, 2x USB 2.0 ports and built-in 1.3MP camera. It comes with 4800mAh battery which is huge by UMPC standards. It packs all the latest wireless radios too: GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth. There is a front-facing 1.3MP camera too which can be used for video calls."

All this is a supported by a VIA C7 processor running at 1GHz. - Gadgetmix

Leaked info on VIA MID phone

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?