Hitachi FLORA-ie MX1 Pocket PC announced for Japan

By James Kendrick | Tuesday, February 1, 2005 | 10:51 AM CT | 3 comments | Tweet This

It may never grace the shores outside of Japan but we can always hope. The newly announced Hitachi FLORA-ie MX1 Pocket PC (I mean Windows Mobile device) borrows a page from the Sharp Zaurus design by incorporating a slide-out keyboard making it a very nice PPC. The 4 inch LCD running in full VGA makes the MX1 a real mobile workhorse. All the details are in Japanese at this point and we’ll follow this as more information is unveiled. Nice looking device.

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(via Pocket PC Thoughts)

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Comments (3)

Oohh.. lucky Japanese!! That looks like a device that would make me start carrying a PPC again – thumb keyboards are great.

-arebelspy

arebelspy — 5:18 AM on February 1, 2005 Reply
If only it ran PalmOS… or OS X!

Mike Cane — 8:58 AM on February 1, 2005 Reply
It is going to be released on the 10th of February and would be available only to corporate customers. The thumb keyboard and integrated WiFi/Bluetooth is really nice, but its really huge (weighs about 260g)..

seacon — 5:20 PM on February 1, 2005 Reply