Comments on ‘HTC Magnum rumours rife following giant phone gag’

So... 

If it doesn't exist, what is the guy demonstrating?

Rotate a monitor 

Linux

Looks like a rotated touchscreen monitor - even down to the buttons on the buttom right of the frame. Hide the SVGA cable down the arm sleeve and hey presto it is a new giant touch pad...

But the Penguin Knows more then the Paris.

20" TFT... 

Hooked up to a HTC Athena/Advantage...

Nice! 

Thumb Up

Whether or not it is a joke, surely there must be a market for such a device? It would be great to have a tablet pc that is actually big enough to do serious work on. Hardly a pocket portable device, but I still think peple would buy these, if nothing else simply because its rediculous

Re: Sooo... 

He's demoing an LCD monitor, sans stand, with the wires up his sleeve and down his back.

looks like,,, 

a guy off camera synchronising taps on a PPC linked to a widescreen monitor with cables running up the presenter's sleeve perhaps?

Whatever it is, I don't want one.

Left hand. 

I note the guys left hand, dispite the rest of him is quight animated, dosent move at all. Implies cables down his sleave.

No, mun 

He's just very wee...

In a patent office somwhere... 

Coat

Darn. I know I should have patented the tablet phone.

Portable 

Paris Hilton

i have a pocket that's just the right size...what? no, seriously...i was talking about Paris.

Real! 

Flame

The UI response is as sluggish as on my real Windows Mobile, you can't fake that!

UFO? 

Alien

Amazing how pretty much all alleged UFO video evidence is of bad vid quality - same goes here.

UFO -> IFO

HTC Magnum = IFO.

Identified FAKE object.

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