The Mintpad

The Mintpad. A promising little Korean pocket monster for those who appreciate the fine arts of drawing, blogging, taking pictures (and blogging), listening music, watching videos, making post-its (and blogging them). Yup, and i havent even beging to mention the different social features like personal calendar, chat and what not.

The Mintpad is a creation by Korean Mintpass, a newcomer on the market founded and run by fugitives of Irivers innovation department, lead by concept excentric Duk-Jun Yang, a former Ceo of Korean Reigncom/Iriver. Mintpass whom with the Mintpad now have good physical proof that they have no intention of being a company not doing things right from the beginning.



To sum up the full potential of the cuddly Mintpad. Well, besides its miniature form factor - the crossbreed size of a creditcard and post-it, it has a good quality 1.3 Megapixel integrated camera (descent for blogging and fun), Wi-fi (802.11 b/g), integrated speaker and microphone, a full 2.9" touch screen (for both fingers and pens), 4gb internal memory (backed up by a microSd slot, supporting up to 8gb cards), removable battery, built in accelerometer and a 3,5 mm standard headphonejack. Codec supports and tricks for music include Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Ape and Flac (which is damn impressive) along a customizable equalizer and intelligent playlist features. Videowise it does Avi (pressumably Divx/Xvid), Wmv and Mpeg (which is equally impressive).

Features include Etch'a'sketch like gesture support for both drawing and blogging. So that when you fx take a picture, wrote some text, made a note or a drawing. Just give the Mintpad a little shake and it goes straight to your blog (or other web destination). Yes, weve seen the shake gestures before, but to be honest, it actually makes alot of sense when you have the internet involved. Check it out.

Draw/write and take pictures. Shake it and blog it!.


Writing/drawing, speedy and natural.


Another really neat and exclusive feature (if you notice on the videos) is that when you make a drawing or a note, it actually blends in a paper texture (optional) so that it looks like a real drawing/post-it instead of straight up generic graphics. That combined with the fact that the Mintpad posseses a very capable tabletminded atypically responsive touchscreen (and nice user interface), makes it all pretty pitchable to the public and worth the fact that this could go and become an actual intelligent little trendsetting device.

So all in all, if youre a whore for simple clean cut design in a tiny package, you love blogging (and lofi photgraphy), you need a home for your handdrawn post-it style critters and doodles. Last but not least, wouldnt mind carrying your music/video along with all of that. Hell, your train has almost arrived. All you gotta do is, Hold your breath for a while and let Mintpass do their thing. They wont let this one miss out on a good old European fondle.

If you wanna see more of the Mintpad, please check out these pages on the Mintpass website. Mintpad design and press photos, The concept and features and How to use. All pages are unfortunantly in Korean, but theres loads of good product shots and details to be excited about.