A nice idea, but as stated, it needs a couple of things:

better resolution support (perhaps 1080p) and better performance would be nice - perhaps they need to offer two models - this, and a slightly more expensive version.

If the small screen were a touch screen, that would be nice, as effectively you'd have a secondary interface for a secondary screen - you could drop nice widgets etc on there, to be run by touch rather than dragging the mouse to a second, tiny screen.

Would be a good screenshot of how you might use such a tiny screen...

When I work from home I share my one screen between my own PC and the work laptop using a KVM. I generally have music playing (through the hi-fi) from my own PC while I'm working on the laptop via the monitor. In this situation I'd like a small display to let me see what is playing on my own PC, it would be even better if it had a touch-screen to let me pause the music for a call without having to switch the KVM. To be honest it doesn't even have to be a proper display, a couple of lines of dot matrix display with some media control buttons would be fine.

Does anyone know of such a device?

There are several very good 24 inch monitors out there with street prices around the £260 mark (and that's good ones with sub 5ms times - there are budget options available down to less than £175). That will give you a 1920 x 1200 display which is 540,000 pixels more than this 22 inch and more total surface area.

"Being based on DisplayPort technology, as you would expect the secondary screen is not designed for performance but for functionality"

Shouldn't that be rephrased as "being based on USB technology"? Conventional DisplayPort signaling is as capable as DVI or HDMI.

For that price, I could buy two decent, full size screens, and have ultimate flexibility. This sounds pretty crap to me.

I'm not convinced this monitor is going to be as useful as Samsung thinks, so you put a chat conversation on to the 7inch monitor? Well, that's one or two chat conversations then..or possibly the email inbox?

It's not enough. I personally, and I don't think I'm anything unsual ( depends on your point of view I hasten to add!), but I have multiple chat windows open with 2 email clients

I think I'd need a couple of 10 inch monitors down the side, in which case, might as well simply go for a bigger screen or two 20+ inches.

I can think of one interesting use for it, in telcos, investment banking in OSS applications which raise alerts regarding the operational status of systems, which could pop-up on the 7inch.

Considered the Logitech G15 keyboard ??

Little lcd display... media controls... works with most media players...

And a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a touchscreen monitor or a dedicated matrix display.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/3498&cl=gb,en

I know you can get it cheaper than that too ;)

Thanks for the suggestion but when I'm working on the work laptop the keyboard is also connected to the work laptop via the KVM. I want something that can stay connected to my personal computer.

I find using a network RDP connection onto the laptop gives a far superior display than using KVM (which I have as well), due to the rubbish monitor out quality from the laptop. If you've got a decent sized LCD monitor there's plenty of room - and you get cut and paste etc.

Any way to add more screens to a desk makes life that much better.