"First, a new device that HTC calls the Shift. It has a cell phone inside — but it’s a full-blown portable Windows Vista PC — about the size of two DVD boxes stacked on top of each other.

"The Shift has a cool 7-inch widescreen touch display, a 30 GB hard drive and a slide-open QWERTY keyboard that you can actually type on. Shift is bigger than mini-laptop offerings from OQO and FlipStart but a whole lot smaller than standard or sub-compact laptops you’re familiar with."

Now, if there is an external DVD RW one could plug in and inexpensive batteries, you'd have something pretty OK.

Arf