You’ve got to hand it to iRiver, they pump out some great industrial design.  Latest to immediate a small puddle of drool around my keyboard is the Wing, a flash-based clamshell UMPC with 4-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard.  iRiver’s press release has it down as running embedded Linux Kernel 2.6, which is strange considering some are reporting it to be a WinCE Pro machine; assuming the details from the horse’s mouth are unmistaken,

the 4GB of memory (and SD expansion) should be plenty for some compact Linux apps.

 

iRiver preload the Wing with a browser, IM client, widget and SMS/MMS support, as well as a VoIP and video conferencing app which takes advantage of the device’s dual cameras.  There’s plus video, photo and music playback, recording software which hopefully captures video as well as audio, […]

Orginal post by Chris Davies