MiTAC's Mio 168 is pleasantly small at 111 x 69 x 15 mm and 147 grams packed into a not-unattractive silver gray plastic case, complete with the GPS patch antenna which flips up from the back or locks down with a clip.

The screen is the standard 240 x 320 16-bit colour transflective TFT common to most Windows Mobile handhelds, and is clear and bright. Below it are the control buttons, including a 5-way joystick in the center and four standard application buttons wrapped around it rather than in a line. The buttons are decent, but the joystick has a sharp crowned edge to it that makes it both a bit slippery to use and surprisingly painful. In fact, the joystick takes the cake as the worst directional controller we've ever seen, a title formerly held by the Sony CLIE PEG-TG50.



Link: InfoSyncWorld