Ha, have been wanting to see this but just with a smart phone running ANDROID, OLED touch screen and wireless dockable keyboard.
Makes since to be he next logical step in development. :-)

This Modu phone is amazing!! Its for people who dont need all that app smart phone crap. Its simple, sylish and fun!

is what I'd be wanting to know. Oh, and is it a Tablet PC. Without the second requirement I'd be immediately interested.

In Warren Ellis's science fiction comic TRANSMETROPOLITAN, the protagonist made a point of installing "phone tools" on any computer he used, which in that future world made less sense than today when it's edgy and underground* and possibly hard to trace, whereas he should have been able to install them in his brain. Or at least his head. For that matter, his computers tended to have keyboards, too. Unlike mine.

* A bit less underground when you could buy it in Tesco. (Discontinued.)

one of the comments above refers to the modu phone as a retard cellphone but modu is working (this was published here as well, I believe) on a second generation phone which will be HSDPA and touch. This is expected this year.

Probably the netbook/phone will be based on that device and not the first generation.

This parade will likely be rained on by the convention of having one SIM for the phone and another for the SIM card slot in your laptop. Which has a (recently cheap) 3G modem in it.

So that's that then, except you wouldn't suffer a laptop's mediocre antenna -- instead you'd be saddled with the laptop's shell acting as a faraday cage in the worst case.

This is an epic fail on both the part of Asus and the Modu phone itself.

If Asus wanted to make something along these lines they should have picked a better partner or designed the phone themselves, god only knows they have the talent on-board to design things compelling.

This would be a great ides if the Modu phone wasnt completely retarded.

Making the iphone itampax comparison isnt a valid comparison, because with the apple products you get the same capabilities on both devices, save the phone part not included on the imaxi. the Modu device isnt a smart phone, so if you need smartphone capability then you still have to carry the netbook with you, and as a bonus, at no extra charge to you, you get the opportunity to look like a moron in public as you sit and talk to your computer like its another person...

Now that is a neat idea! Is the phone module a smart phone, or do I have to lug around the Netbook to view my calendar?