HTC Magnum rumours rife following giant phone gag

A group of self-confessed pranksters have admitted that their mock-up of a monster HTC tablet, dubbed the Magnum, doesn’t signal the manufacturer’s release of a super ‘pocket’ PC. However, the web’s now clogged with rumours to the contrary. HTC_Magnum The pranksters' HTC Magnum mock-up Image courtesy of Pocketpt.net …

[Sam]

So...

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

[Marc Lawrence]

Rotate a monitor

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.

[Luke Wells]

Nice!

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

[Chris]

20" TFT...

Hooked up to a HTC Athena/Advantage...

[Tom Chiverton]

Re: Sooo...

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

[MG]

looks like,,,

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.

[Paul]

Left hand.

I note the guys left hand, dispite the rest of him is quight animated, dosent move at all. Implies cables down his sleave.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, mun

He's just very wee...

[Naadir Jeewa]

In a patent office somwhere...

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

[b shubin]

Portable

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

[chris]

Real!

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

[Stu]

UFO?

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.