Oh Brando, you tickle the collective fancy of internet users everywhere with your $177 touchscreen portable media player. It plays back high-definition video files, it can be hooked up to a TV, it doubles as a digital photo frame, and it’s expandable via microSD cards.
It just needs a Wi-Fi chip and a web browser. Granted, the 7-inch screen’s resolution is just 800×480 but some sort of modified browser would get the job done. And there’s no mention of battery life, but most couches are near enough to an outlet to almost make that a non-issue.
Alas, you’ll be at the mercy of your computer’s USB port when it comes to getting content onto the device. There’s 8GB of built-in storage, expandable via 32GB microSD card.
bmorn BM-888 PMP Player [Brando]
I would have considered it if it could view PDFs.
Aren’t there MicroSD WiFi cards? I’ve seen them for phones… might be a way to get wifi. Just need to hack the software up.
At $177 it’s pretty reasonable. $300 netbooks can’t even play HD video. Nice product. Apple would paint it white, charge $600, then rape you on iTunes :-( …and an army of spiral-eyed zombies would still buy it.
Something like the free WebTaps software (www.webtaps.com) that turns Firefox into a touch screen web browser would be ideal for a tablet PC like this.