iRiver G10

A new piece of hotness from iRiver is on the horizon. The G10 will have a 4-inch WVGA screen that displays at 800 by 480 resolution with 260,000 colors. Allegedly, it runs on a WinCe 5.0 operating system and comes with a 4 to 8 GB internal harddrive. And check out that design: Two D-Pads and a design that looks like it allows the screen to slide over the body of the device when not in use.
Its WiBro-wireless system is being developed by Korea Telecom. Also the depicted game is a korean game (Kart-Rider). Several bloggers hold this as a company-made mockup -- take a close look at the screenshots at aving.net: one shot features a logo on the G10, the other one doesn't. It seems questionable, if the given release-date in 2006 is really going to happen.

Upshot: when this thing will turn up in America and Europe is not sure by any means. There is also no information about the important question of affiliated game-developers. But I got the feeling the G10's sliding case is quite handy for watching movies...