Is iRiver moving toward Wintel’s UMPC solution? The company has present its new iRiver W10 that powered by Microsoft’s Windows XP at CeBIT 2006. I don’t know how to categorize it, probably a handheld PC or sub-notebook.

The model shown on the exhibition is still a mock-up unit. The company only disclose some brief specification about it. It is expected to be released in this September or November. Don’t be shock, if you see its price tag at 1000€ when it is released.

iRiver W10

Specs:

• Display: 5″ TFT LCD
• Storage: 60GB HDD
• Network: Mobile WiMax (WiBro), WiFi (802.11G), Bluetooth 2.0
• USB: USB 2.0 Host
• DMB: T-DMB with 23 channels, Built-in Antenna
• Navigation: 87 Full-size keyboard, 11 Numeric keypad, iRiver D-Navi System
• Audio: MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC LC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, PCM(Wave), MIDI
• Video: MPEG 4, H.264, WMV9, DivX
• OS: Windows XP

It seems that most iRiver fans don’t welcome this design

via [ MisticRiver ]