Another advantage of a Windows Mobile device is its ability to sync with your main PC (or Exchange, although a Windows netbook running Outlook could do that, too).

Plus, with Office Mobile included in Window Mobile, you have limited spreadsheet and text editing plus PowerPoint playback without having to buy Office.

I wonder what the screen resolution is on this, though. I don't think Microsoft officially supports anything past 800x480.

Steve

Price is going to make or break this thing....if they can get it to market at a nice price point it will have a fair chance. Also I REALLY hope they do all the drivers for it right cause if they end up going the same route as HTC did with sloppy graphics drivers for the TyTn II/Tilt, it will have NO chance in a world of cheap Eee PCs and all the other netbooks out there.

Its funny, but this is what the HPC was trying to be since it's beginning. I was a long time HPC user and preached it's benefits so often, but people just didn't seem to see the value. They would always point to laptops being able to do more.

With so many netbooks (should we say webbooks, surfbooks, or the-devices-formerly-known-as-netbooks?) being so cheap and portable it is even more of an uphill battle for something like this to fly. It is seems to be a notebook but can't do as much...forget it.

The biggest appeal of WinMo in this form factor imo is the instant on. You probably noticed a lot of people complain about how long it takes for suspend mode to kick in with a netbook but with Windows Mobile it is instant on and off. Once you have actually had that it is VERY obvious how much of an advantage it is. The other part is battery life. I had an IBM HPC that lasted something like 14 hours on a charge! The norm for notebooks at that time was 2 hours.

If these were marketed heavily for their advantages and stresses as a VERY mobile solution they have a chance, but again, its an uphill battle.