The issue is that the cobweb of patents and royalties due to all those other people push the price of such a device up to that of a small laptop. In fact, a small laptop does this now and will cost less than what you saw on Gizmodo.

The best unit I've seen that came close is an ipaq with wifi that could sync with home, run apps, play mp3 from the files at home and charged via the USB (and car too.) The 4GB requirement vanishes when we go wireless. Think about it.

Bob