Royal Linux PDA Finally Coming To Market 178
An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com: 'After a false start and a delay, Royal appears ready at last to ship its Linux-based PDA, the Linea LX. The Linux LX is now expected to arrive this quarter, priced at $399. The device will be based on a 200MHz Motorola i.MX1 MDragonBall processor equipped with 64MB of SDRAM and 32MB of Flash memory, and will include Trolltech's Qtopia graphical framework and PIM suite.'"
Sad to see obsessions with clockspeed already (Score:5, Interesting)
Agenda. (Score:5, Interesting)
It's quite surreal to be able to pop up an Xterm on this tiny box.
It's nice to be able to use NFS via PPP to copy files back and forth to my PC...having that level of general 'stuff' available is a powerful reason for wanting Linux in a PDA.
dimensions (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Sad to see obsessions with clockspeed already (Score:5, Interesting)
Yes, a streamlined OS / GUI that is snappy even on a slow processor is a good thing, but that does nothing for performance outside of the basic PIM type functionality.
Dan East
Microsoft Zealots (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe now the Microsoft Zealots will come out of the woodwork and ask:
"Yea but, can it run Windows!?"
"Just imagine a BSOD on these?"
etc.
But what about GPE (Score:2, Interesting)
Where do i get a decent handheld running GPE [handhelds.org]?
I was waiting for it since i saw it the first time
Compares well with my Zaurus 5500 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:The price always surprises me. (Score:3, Interesting)
Chalk another one up for PocketPC... If anyone wants Linux handhelds to succeed they need to price them affordably with similar specs. Much like the desktop Linuxes. (Linii?)
Debatable whether I will purchase this... (Score:4, Interesting)
It left me as a customer fairly hurt, so it is understandable that I'd be just a bit cautious before spending 400.00 on a product made by Royal. I doubt they'd make such a mistake again... especially if they are using an open-source platform, but I'd still be very cautious, I've lost a lot of faith in them as a company.
Why woudl this succeed? (Score:5, Interesting)
- Linux OS - some of us find this a compelling feature. But, the Zaurus's have met that relatively small market already.
- Form Factor - it looks rather thick, and not particularly small in any dimension. There are many small/lighter/thinner PDAs to choose from.
- Performance - at 200MHz, it's not bad for a PDA, but there are many others out there that are faster and can do MPEG video.
- Software - Yes, the linux command-line utilities are nice. But, for general PDA apps, there are many better choices than the Linux PDAs.
Linux on the desktop (Score:2, Interesting)
Linux PDA... sweet! (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder if it will be possible to download that version of Linux somewhere so that I may install it on my current PDA? I'm really interested in checking out the code itself also... just to see what makes it so flexible on the PDA.
U.S market lags behind world top tech? (Score:2, Interesting)