There's been a lot of rumbling around this phone/PDA on the mobile blogs...

…and I’m not really sure why.

Here’s the Engadget Mobile post.

Yes, it’s a pretty cool phone, but why all of the sudden the talk about it—it’s been around at least since CES 2006!? The phone is a PDA/smartphone that runs a version of Linux in a fairly small form-factor.

You can buy them here:

• WirelessImports

• EportWorld

The Engadget Mobile post only showed the MING with non-latin characters, but at CES, I took some photos of the English interface. Take a look:

You can find other photos taken at CES 2006 in the Gallery here