Mintpass, a subsidiary of Reigncom, which also owns iRiver, has a good idea for all of us. Instead of buying a pocket PC or a smartphone, why don’t we invest our hard-earned cash on something just as good.. a Mintpad. For only $156, you get a device that stores notes on a 2.86-inch touchscreen via handwriting recognition software and a stylus plus additional support for AVI, MPEG1/2/4, WMV7/8/9, MP4, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, APE, FLAC and JPG, BMP PNG. It runs of Windows CE and is powered by ARM9 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM and will have 4GB of storage expandable via SDHC cards. It’s a Korea-only device for now but something tells me that though the Mintpad matches many if iPhone’s function, a comparison will not be made in the West.
[via itechnews]
November 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Interesting product. I don’t see why these features can’t be incorporated into the run of the mill MP4 players that use a resistive touchscreen like the Onda VX747 or Teclast M33
June 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
[...] Enlgand, Canada, Australia, etc. then by all means we must expect the U.S., Europe launch of the Mintpad soon. The Mintpass Mintpad is a would-be revolutionary 3-inch touchscreen PMP that serves as a [...]
September 15th, 2009 at 5:34 am
[...] touchscreen device is now being distributed in earnest. We’ve been pretty impressed with MintPass Mintpad since we first heard about it. It seems to be the miniaturized result when you cross a PDA and a [...]