iRiver Wave-Home vs. Touch Revolution NIMble: Fight!

Take what looks like a stylish, but thicker-than-normal digital photo frame -- and bless it with a 7-inch touch-screen, built-in Webcam and speakers. Then add Internet access allowing it to handle VoIP voice or video calls, in addition to text messages. Give it a Web browser, widgets for weather, traffic and more, then let it stream or play back locally stored music, photos and movies. Oh, and aim to keep it around $300-$400. You'd be asking for a new breed of home communications hub.

Here at the Consumer Electronics Show, we've seen just that. Two such products appear destined to battle it out sometime in 2009: iRiver's Wave-Home (pictured first) and the Google Android-powered Touch Revolution NIMble Home Phone concept.

The latter is spearheaded by Mark Hamblin, the product-design lead of the first iPhone's touchscreen. As you'll see below, Touch Revolution is toying with a range of hardware options. Here's how we understand the two devices compare right now (scroll right down for price and availability details).

Would you buy one?