Actually, reading the google translation of the chinese page, I think I misunderstood what Pocketables was saying. It's not "two devcies, a MID and a phone, sharing 1 chasis", it's that they've got 2 displays on 1 device, and they've added the phone functionality to midinux.

(pocketables seemed to imply it had XP with support for midinux, but the chinese page seems to be saying it runs midinux, not XP)

So, that could be interesting. It would also mean that porting Mer to it might be a little more tricky (needing to support 2 displays, non-voip phone, and SMS/MMS messaging). But the chinese page also seems to be a little confused about whether it's a GSM or CDMA device. It says CDMA, but it has a SIM slot (RUIM slot then?). Or maybe Google's translator mistook it for WCDMA. I dunno.