The word “screenshot” means a shot of a computer screen. While you have included a couple of pictures that could be referred to as screenshots, twice here you’ve used the word “screenshot” when you really meant “picture”.

Screenshots predate personal computers by quite a long way. Photographs of TV screens, intended to give the viewer an idea of the quality of the TV were the first screenshots (and needed to be synchronised to the refresh rate of low illumination interval screens). Then early computer magaznes frequently employed actual photos of screens running various programs because the hardware required to capture the image was either prohibitively expensive or impossible to operate simultaneously with the application (think dongle secured software). So if you’re going to be a pedant, check your facts first :)

Chumby looks awesome btw :)

@Eric that’s an informative comment, thanks for posting! Did you read the second part of the review? http://tinyurl.com/2a5att

@Rami, lol! ;)
My favourite distribution is Gentoo. Then Debian/Ubuntu.

Now all I am trying to figure out is, whats your distro :D?

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I like the fact that it’s Linux and everything about the unit is open-sourced (hardware too!) but I just don’t see a market for this. It’s not quite a digital internet-enabled picture frame (too small) and not nearly Nokia n810 realm. It reminds me of a digital clock on steroids (sans radio receiver) or a really small desktop designed for the lilliputians - the kind of unit at home in a parent’s or grandparent’s home (example: touch widget see email, touch another widget see pictures, no-muss-no-fuss) except that the screen would need to be larger to reach this audience.

The specs are promising and perhaps the Chumby Network will provide value that isn’t apparent to me (including email). Would like to see a followup review about any advantages the Network provides, readability (eBooks), graphic resolution, mp3 playback/sound, video feasibility and it’s ability to read/write to external USB drives.

All Widgets: http://www.chumby.com/guide

Specs via http://www.chumby.com/story :
Wi-fi connectivity • access to the free Chumby Network • 3.5″ LCD color touchscreen • two external USB 2.0 full-speed ports • 350 MHz ARM processor • 64 MB SDRAM • 64 MB NAND flash ROM • stereo 2W speakers • headphone output • squeeze sensor • accelerometer (motion sensor) • leather casing • AC adapter included