James Kendrick has made a 20 minute video overview of the new Vulcan Flipstart. In the video he shows the secondary display and thumboard and talks about 4 or 5 hours battery life which is impressive and explains why the total weight of the unit is over 800gms. The battery must be over 30W/hrs for that sort of life.
I like the window zoom facility, it offsets my worries about the PPI (pixels per inch) being too high. I calculate about 210 PPI which is about the same as the Raon Digital Vega at native resolution. The Sony UX is much tighter. over 250PPI which, in my opinion, is too much.
So what about availability outside the U.S? Is there a CE (European Conformity) sticker on it James? Can you ask Vulcan if they will support other radio types? And of course, please try and confirm pricing. $2000 is sounding pretty expensive considering there are other Pentium-based UMPC options out there. In fact, if I just tap into the new comparison engine here (which is going to be launched tomorrow) I can bring up the other Pentium-M options. Here’s a screen-shot of the comparison (click to view.)
As Pocketables commented yesterday, its pretty funny that the Flipstart website still shows a teaser and the invitation to ‘be the first to know.’ I know from my site stats that quite a few thousand people already know about it. Psst. Don’t tell Vulcan. The website is open now.
Vulcan Flipstart specifications with gallery and news links is now available.
