1) Screen too small (4-inches? come on now!)
2) Res too low... 1024x600 should be the minimum today.
3) Via C-7M is weak.
The good:
1)Linux on the .arm side. (Five Stars!!!)
2) It's a phone!
3) 4GB DDR2
Will I buy it?, @$500.00 (if it actually comes in at this price) it's an acceptable loss if it doesn't work for me.
If they built something with those features (and battery life) that ran a Core2Duo, had a thin bezeled 7-inch 1280x800 LCD, looked like this or this and was modular where the handset was detachable and worked via Bluetooth like this or this then the UMPCs I currently own would be on sale now and I'd be camping out in front of the store until July when it came out and willing to spend USD2k on it.
Funny thing is, only three things turned me off the HTC Shift...
1) Stealey A110 (A glorified NorthBridge Processor parading as a CPU)
2) 800x480
3) Windows(Mobile) and Windows(XP/Vista)
"So how many Intel Centrino Atoms will you need to make a Core2Duo (a Molecule)?"
If Intel is insisting on going this route with mobile, here's hoping that the Via Isaiah with VX800 out-performs the Intel Core Solo/Core2 Solo and the current crop of C7-M systems out there get upgraded to the pin compatible Isaiah.
