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Comments on: HTC Magnum rumours rife following giant phone gag

So... 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:38 GMT

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

Rotate a monitor 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:49 GMT

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... 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:56 GMT

Hooked up to a HTC Athena/Advantage...

Nice! 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:59 GMT

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... 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:01 GMT

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

looks like,,, 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:06 GMT

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. 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:51 GMT

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 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 16:26 GMT

He's just very wee...

In a patent office somwhere... 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 16:31 GMT

Coat

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

Portable 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 16:37 GMT

Paris Hilton

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

Real! 

Posted Thursday 7th February 2008 05:53 GMT

Flame

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

UFO? 

Posted Thursday 7th February 2008 12:24 GMT

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.