What was just a glimpse earlier this year seems to be taking shape :

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/samsung/s...ard-294055.php

Visually this strange beast looks like the bastard offspring of a Zaurus clamshell, a Nokia IT and a folding BT keyboard (quite some orgy :-).

But drop the extraneous hard drive and OS, add BT, maybe make the keyboard part detachable, and you could have something to please both Zaurus and Tablet diehards... and if it runs XP, it can run almost any sort of Linux too...

Edit : oh, and I forgot... don't miss the comments on that Giz post. The abysmal vacuity of that crowd never ceases to amaze. I just finished reading Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End", and I loved one of the chapter titles, it sums up our modern world so simply yet thoroughly :
"So much technology, so little talent..."

I think this is the perfect device! I hate thumb devices and devices without any keyboard. There are millions of people whom really want a computer with a real keyboard that is small enough to be portable that runs standard desktop OS. The entire market of UMPC and other small devices lack the creativity and especially the usable form factor that this device has.

I disagree with the other post about a reincarnation of a Zaurus. Those early clamshell devices have a huge market potential right now if they were updated with color, a standard desktop operating system and kept their small but highly functional form factor. MS abandoned that operating system the HPC OS and focused on the PPC OS. The band aid solution for those devices lack of functionality is the terrible invention of the thumb input. Everyone I know hates those with a passion. The majority of the people just want a touch type keyboard period!