The Trans Phone keeps popping up in my field of internet vision, and I just need to say, somewhere, that I worked on a later revision of this product in, like, 2002. (Most of the work was done by the guy I shared my cubicle with, but I helped out now and then.) By then it was called the iCit Telecenter. I have one in my basement, it looks virtually identical to this, just a lighter grey, and with a SVGA touchscreen instead of screen buttons. When you folded up the keyboard, it would show banner ads in the little rectangle of the screen that was still visible. Under the hood the Telecenter was a 486 PC with like... 10mb of flash storage, running QNX 4. They contracted out the software to the company I was working for, but ran out of money to pay us with. IDK if they ever sold any.
Nobody asked me to, but I dug it out and booted it up. I largely remembered correctly; it's a 75MHz 486 with 16mb of RAM and an 8mb DiskOnChip, which is... kind of a wild device, honestly. I won't get into it here because nobody cares, but getting it back to the point where it attempts to boot into QNX was a big victory for me today. Unfortunately I definitely did not leave it programmed with its original firmware, but it looked more or less like the bottom screen here.
Probably gonna pull the DiskOnChip, toss in a big ol' CompactFlash drive, and make it run Doom.
It's basically unplayable thanks to the cheap keyboard that has no rollover on the arrow keys, meaning I can't turn and move forward at the same time
And the ghosting on the cheap LCD is pretty bad
But I know everyone wants to see the next generation Trans Phone run Doom, so here you are
