On my way to another appointment at CES, I got sidetracked by the display at the Cydle booth. Cydle, you say? Yeah, I’d never heard of them either, but they’ve got some cool-looking gadgets here in Vegas. Apparently out of South Korea, Cydle is due to go into retail in the States in the first half of this year. I saw a 10″ netbook that will be priced at $299 (unfortunately with limited specs to match), and more interestingly, an Internet-connected media player (a MID!) with an ATSC TV tuner embedded. Brad Linder at Lilliputing got a price out of Cydel for the M7 Mobile Internet Device. It should go on sale for $199, making it not much more expensive than Aluratek’s non-Internet-connected Cinepal.
Maybe they’ll move into the vacant Circuit City stores…