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We wouldn’t exactly call the social networking-focused HTC ChaCha (aka Status) and Salsa resounding successes in the smartphone world when they were quickly overshadowed by… just about everything with a Facebook app, really. Still, there have been murmurs of a comeback, and Unwired View‘s historically reliable evleaks has obtained specs for what’s supposedly the follow-up. The HTC Myst (Myst #UL, to be exact) wouldn’t have any special tricks on the surface beyond preloaded Facebook apps, but it could be surprisingly well-equipped for a mid-range Jelly Bean device: a 4.3-inch 720p screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4, LTE and 16GB of non-expandable storage would be nothing to sneeze at. About the only sacrifices would be the 1GB of RAM and a potentially UltraPixel-free 5-megapixel rear camera. While there’s no guarantee that these details will reflect a shipping device, there’s talk of the Myst reaching the US as early as the spring — we won’t have long to learn the truth. Just don’t expect that other Myst in the box.

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Have you ever played Myst on the computer back in the day? For those who did, I am quite sure that you were enthralled by the new term coined in the IT world known as “multimedia”, and it is nice to see nostalgia being fleshed out in the form of an actual, physical book, thanks to the exertions by a certain Mike Ando. Mike actually created a replica linking book from the graphic adventure video game series known as Myst, and in order to maintain a degree of authenticity, he decided to make a close as possible copy of the same book which was originally scanned as a texture reference. The game allowed such books to transport folks to mystical worlds, and Ando’s creation that is a labor of love six years (!) in the making carries a full desktop computer within, being self-contained without the need for any external wires or hardware.

In order to transport you to faraway fantasy worlds, the Myst Book will carry a 5” LED touchscreen display at 640 × 480 resolution, in addition to a copy of all the Myst games released pre-installed. The ‘real’ Myst book can be yours for a whopping $15,625, and in order to help loosen your purse strings, perhaps watching a video of the Myst Book in action above will do the trick.

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Most of us who remember Myst are content to relive the halcyon days of click-and-watch puzzle games by loading up the iPhone port. Mike Ando is slightly more… dedicated. He just spent the past six years building a replica of the Cyan game’s signature, Age-traveling link books that includes a full Windows XP PC with a 1.6GHz Atom, a 2-hour battery, a 5-inch touchscreen and every playable game from the Myst series stored on a CF card. And while we’ve seen books hiding devices before, Ando’s attention to detail might just raise the eyebrows of hardcore custom PC and gaming fans alike: he went so far as to gut and emboss a 135-year-old copy of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine to match Cyan’s reference tome as closely as possible. It’s tempting for anyone who cut their teeth on CD-based gameplay through Myst, but perfect devotion to one of the better-known fictional worlds will cost an accordingly steep $15,625. We wouldn’t have minded seeing some real intra-world travel for the cash outlay.

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