Linux PDA From China 192
hama writes "There is a new Linux PDA from China from a Beijing Firm Golden Global View who has been in the PDA/Digital Dictionary Market in China/Hong Kong/Taiwan for some time. The model is
WalkPad GP1288 with a SRP of RMB1288 in China.
Use the fish if you cannot read Chinese." My favorite fishism in here is the "The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom."
Fish. (Score:2, Funny)
Let's hope it doesn't flounder.
Re:Fish. (Score:2)
Finally! World domination! ;-)
Re:Fish. (Score:1)
It's fantastic isn't it?
Seriously though, this is one helluva big market, but I thought the Chinese had sold their souls to Microsoft and Chairman Gates with his Little Red copy of "Business @ The Speed of Shite"?
Your translation is correct. Fish sucks. (Score:1)
Linux on PDA, SO? (Score:1, Insightful)
not cool... (Score:4, Funny)
Now now, remember when you laugh at a person for not getting your native tounge just right, its because they bothered to learn *your* lanaguage. Most Americans dont speak more than English, so it's not fair to make fun of this Mr. Fish. To Mr. Fish, we're sorry!
Re:not cool... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:not cool... (Score:1)
Re:not cool... (Score:2)
Where did the "grammer" misspelling come from, anyhoo?
Re:not cool... (Score:1)
My favorite is: "the abundant electric power at will supplements." Sounds like free energy!
Cool! (Score:2)
Re:Cool! (Score:1)
It's mysterious where the "beat a drum" comes from. I thought it's somebody making fun. But then I tried just this sentence and Mr. Fish actually said so.
Obviously not (Score:2)
Re:not cool... (Score:2)
"The world standard Chinese Language Linux Operating System. More stable, More freedom."
Although, that's not as funny as the fish translation.
My favorite was this one, actually (Score:2)
Re:not cool... (Score:1)
This clearly translates as "w3 0wnz j00 wit R Linux l33tness."
Re:not cool... (Score:1)
I'm sure that most marketing hype sounds like this if it were interpreted literally.
Re:not cool... (Score:1)
Standard (Score:1)
On a related topic, does anyone have any birth/death statistics for America and China and juat about anywhere else? Preferaby multiple independent sources to get an idea of how badly the books are cooked. Enron, Global Crossing, Worldcom, anyone?
I want a PDA that does this! (Score:1)
Splendid (Score:1, Offtopic)
I think i'll pass for now, call me when there is an English version. Though I agree that the internet is splendid and it sometimes makes me grasp.
Thus above transmits mean I can only use AboveNet?
But I must say the thing looks cool. They could sell some more if they made an English version I guess...
Re:Splendid (Score:2)
Thus above transmits mean I can only use AboveNet?
You know...the parent post, which requests an English version, looks a lot like someone translated it from Chinese in the Fish. The REALLY sad thing is that AVee seems to be a native English speaker.
I've often been startled by how easily foreigners can pick up the insane babbling that is English (no flames please, I love our language but it is a hodgepodge of about ten other languages)...and how horribly people can speak it who have it as a first language.
Re:Splendid (Score:2)
Whoops...the guy was quoting. My fault; sorry AVee. ;)
No! Chinese! (Score:2)
Re:No! Chinese! (Score:1)
Yikes! (Score:2)
As long as you're on a roll, how about recommending a good book on learning written Chinese?
Cool (Score:1, Funny)
Unfortunately... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:4, Funny)
Your wife moderating again?
Re:Unfortunately... *lol* (Score:1)
And 10,000 buttons is not enough for traditional chinese, of course (it's enough for simplified, though)...
Re:Unfortunately... *lol* (Score:1)
Re:Unfortunately... *lol* (Score:2)
Read the history of the simplification of Chinese characters here [chinalanguage.com].
"In 1955 1,053 variant characters were eliminated."
Traditional characters are making a comeback though, as they are easier to recognize for meaning and pronunciation than the simplfified equivalent.
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:1)
Actually it is... (Score:1)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:2)
Actually the joke was about the ignorance that most people have about chinese keyboards. Very few non-asians have any idea what they're like. That's why my comment was funny. Chinese using 10,000 key keyboard isn't the joke, the joke is people not knowing any better.
The clue that I was being sarcastic was here: "the 10,000 button Chinese keyboard won't ship until next year.
It's kind of like in the South Park Movie when the Americans were laughing at the Canadians about saying 'aboot' instead of about. That scene really wasn't making fun of the Canadians, but the American's silly reaction to a different pronounciation of a word. It was rather amusing watching a Canadian friend of mine get all upset about it because he didn't pay attention to what was really happening. He thought South Park was anti-Canadian.
You kind of remind me of that guy. Pity, my sarcastic comment was expressing your view about people's ignorance of asian culture. I kinda thought you of all people would find it funny.
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:2)
That Americans ACTUALLY think that most Canadians say "aboot" is adequate proof.
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:2)
so what's so new? (Score:1)
So what's so new about this gadget?
Re:so what's so new? (Score:2)
LEXX
Re:so what's so new? (Score:2)
/. just heard about it.
that's about $156 according to xe.com (Score:3, Informative)
1 China Yuan Renminbi = 0.121695 USD
1 United States Dollars = 8.21724 CNY
also:
1,288.00 CNY = 159.042 EUR
Since I don't have that currency conversion in my head.
Conversion... (Score:1)
This Linux business certainly can't be too popular in Redmond after yesterday's announcement [yahoo.com].
Another page for the same device? (Score:3, Informative)
Anyone have any well-translated info on this?
Re:Another page for the same device? (Score:1)
Why in the world would you block *that*!? (unless it is because you can enter a URL for a non-english porn site to get past the filter?)
Re:Another page for the same device? (Score:1)
Re:Another page for the same device? (Score:1)
I ran into another silly case where they have lists.samba.org blocked. When I asked about this the reply was "it is an internet newsgroup, we block those".
So, mailing list archives are blocked as a group because newsgroups are 99% non-work-related in someone's view.
So, I just use google cache and can get to the content. Shhh, don't tell them or they might block google as well!
Filters just don't work. (duh)
Regulation turtle? (Score:2)
Re:Regulation turtle? (Score:3, Funny)
Note that this is entirely distinct from a regulation sea turtle, which is used exclusively for sea turtle polo.
--
Damn the Emperor!
Re:Regulation turtle? (Score:2)
Re:Another page for the same device? (Score:1)
Re:Another page for the same device? (Score:1)
my translation of that line (Score:1)
My translation attempt (Score:5, Informative)
[Specification]
* Model: Retail Price: 1498 Yun (~ USD$181)
* CPU: Toshiba TX3911 (MIPS Architecture) 58MHZ 32bits
* ROM: 32M NANDFlash
* RAM: 16M SDRAM
* Screen: 160*240 STN16 Grey Scale, Hand writing recognition
* IrDA: 115200bps max
* Backlite: EL Backlite (??)
* Battery: Lithium Battery, 680mAh, 8 hours, stand-by 1 month
[Main Functions]
* Linux System: Chinese Linux system first in the world! More stable and more free (in the liberal sense)
* Infrared: International standard infrared transmission for short distance communication.
* Networking: Portable Internet access allows you to send emails from your palm (literally).
* Usb: High speed USB transmission. (It sounds like that it can be recharged from the USB cable, hmmm...)
* eXpandable: Highly expandable that give you space for upgrade.
* 32Mb Flash memory, 16Mb RAM, usable space up to 8.4 million Chinese character.
* MP3 play-back ability. Digital recording.
* Portable detachable (??) keyboard.
* Digital (??) library.
* Powerful dictionary with 110,000 English -> Chinese and 60,000 Chinese -> English dictionary. Other dictionaries are available for download.
* Personalised reminder/notification in voice, vibration and flashing lights (or something like that).
Note that I've removed some marketing terms 'coz I have no idea how to translate them, and they are nothing useful than praising how good/great/powerful it is.
Dodge Saves (Score:2)
Re:Dodge Saves (Score:1)
Re:Dodge Saves (Score:1)
And People Raves (Score:2)
Re:And People Raves (Score:1)
"We love to verb nouns."
Re:And People Raves (Score:2)
In fact, there is a perfectly grammatical means of nouning a verb, its called a gerund: The umpteenth running of the Great Deerwood Woodtick Races.
And, um, flaming.
The Flaming Grammarians are all wet here. Modern grammar recognizes usage as paramount and grammar neither more nor less normative than spelling or the convention of the signifier itself. Which is not to say that some verbification should not be challenged: *deplane* is just plain misguided. Its construction follows no known rule but that of laziness.
The very idea of a *prescriptive* grammar outside the domain of synthetic (as opposed to natural, unfortunate distinction that) language is laughable.
Re:And People Raves (Score:2)
Prescriptive grammarians tend to slavishly expect English to follow Latin. In reality, English is closer to Chinese than Latin in structure (though not, of course, in vocabulary.) 'Verbing' is a common zero-transform in Germanic languages generally, and that tendency is most pronounced in English.
Re:And People Raves (Score:2)
Re:And People Raves (Score:2)
Actually, despite all of those years of prescription against it, the language has nonetheless been shedding inflectional structures at record pace. ESI (English sin infleción) is actually understandable in most cases, though it sounds funny. Try that even in Chaucers day and it would have been total gibberish.
"Linux" in Chinese? (Score:2)
:Peter
Re:"Linux" in Chinese? (Score:1)
Re:My translation attempt (Score:1)
actually useful (Score:3, Insightful)
also they use the Toshiba TX3911 a MIPS but they clock it real low
(the tx39XX was the part done for sony EE was it not ?)
and anyone who has actually tried to use a sharp zarus when away from the office knows its not much use as the power dies because of the LCD the same is true of fancy CE machines
(when will people learn that haveing your contacts in colour is pointless if you cant see it better to go with greyscale and have a couple of extra hours of use)
they claim USB & networking is this built in ?
(I dont remember tosh doing a mips part with eth MAC on chip)
my hopes are high that this will work I am curious to how they get input and what they use to display CJK chars
regards
john jones
Maybe it was lost on the fist, but (Score:1, Funny)
What is the benifit? (Score:2)
Re:What is the benifit? (Score:1)
One argument against this would be to avoid the MicroSoft tax as the iPaq comes with PocketPC.
Re:What is the benifit? (Score:1)
Re:What is the benifit? (Score:2)
I still think there's a niche for low-end Linux PDAs. Of course, Softfield [softfield.com] is selling their improved 16M, battery-charging Agenda VR3 hardware for ~$130 as well...
Break the other half of the Wintel monopoly (Score:1)
And yes, I've run Linux and PocketPC/CE on StrongARM. On an iPAQ, and on a couple of other StrongARM-based devices. I've written Linux framebuffer and USB drivers for StrongARM. I know what I'm talking about here.
MIPS chips, like those found in the Agenda and this Chinese PDA (and the now discontinued Vadem Clio and others), are more cleanly designed, have less errata, and are much cheaper. Buying something that contains one of these units tells the market that you want them to select the right chip for the job, not just pick whatever Microsoft and Intel have decided to give you.
I won't buy an iPAQ, ever.
If you do, you're just giving Microsoft and Intel another sale of PocketPC+StrongARM, even if you never boot the iPAQ to anything but Linux. If you're happy with that, then you may as well run XP on your PC, too.
And don't get me started on XScale, Intel's "replacement" for the StrongARM that does even less, yet costs more. Even Microsoft admits that XScale is a real disappointment. But that's sort of like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?
Re:Break the other half of the Wintel monopoly (Score:1)
Yeah right, like I just sucked a whale.
You know, Babelfish translations... (Score:2, Funny)
- A.P.
chinesse-english-russian (Score:1)
Direct Translation of fishism (Score:1)
The world's solely Chinese Linux operating system, more stable and more free.
After much discussion with him about what "the world's solely" meant, we came to the conclusion that in English the best translation is: "the world's unique" as in,
Unique in the whole world, the Chinese operating system is more stable and more free (as in freedom).
GP1288 page on the Taiwanese website (Score:1)
Funny that big the blue'ish text across the top of the page, with "blood" dripping from above, says "Even Bill Gates is scared".
Anyway, it appears to be using some 32-bit RISC processor running at 58Mhz, weight at 139g, with a jog dial, and there's lots of emphasis on the freedom Linux has given you. It *is* charged from its USB cable. However, it does not seem to have any external expansion capability, i.e. more memory via SD or CF.
Imagine that. (Score:1)
Fishism (Score:2)
(-1, Flamebait)
(-1, Troll)
My new motto... (Score:1)
It runs CDE by default... (Score:1)
CDE = Communist Desktop Environment
wonderful 'fishisms' (Score:3, Funny)
Not to enforce any negative cultural stereotypes, but for some reason this gave me the image of the Vietnamese prostitute (yes I know, wrong country) standing on a street corner from 'Full Metal Jacket' holding a PDA.
'Hey G.I., you like PDA?'
'You like PDA? You like MP3'
(holds out PDA)
'Play mp3, ultra long time. You record ultra looong time. Yeah baby... digital. It play digital all night long, ultra looooong time'.
WalkPad (Score:1)
Chinese Translation and Some Comments (Score:1, Interesting)
Spec:
Model: GP1288 Retail price: 1498 Yuan
Flash Memory: 32M NAND Flash
Memory: 16M SDRAM
Screen: 160*240 STN16 [steps] grey scale, Hand writing touch screen
IrDA: maximum 115200bps
Backgorund illumination: EL
Battery: Lithium Rechargable, 680mAh, fully recharged in 8 hours, last for one month in standby
Main Features Overview:
Of course, I am interested to know how it recognizes Chinese hand writing. Do they have to simplify the strokes? And whether its translation from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English is as bad as the fish's.
I mean, I still don't care about the different Chinese input methods. They are either impossible to learn in a few minutes, or they use pinyin or something like that. That has made me a read-only person as far as Chinese is concerned. If the thing has a good hand-writing recognition program, we can always expand that to a hand-writing device for an ordinary PC.
Anyhow.
Along with carries motion hard disk ??? (Score:1)
Super Karate Monkey Death Car (Score:2, Funny)
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler... well there you go... it's got kind of a ring to it don't it? Anyway, I wanted to read from chapter three... which is the story of my first rise to financial prominence... I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street... many days no business come to my hut... my hut... but Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no. I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo... dung.
Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat the donkey.
Well, you know... it's LIKE when a clown is making like a car... racer... it's sorta... like... the FCC. The CLOWN... the clown is like the FCC... and I was opposed to the FCC at the time, right? So it was like I was declaring War. WARRRR!
What did you mean when you said, "Feel my skills, donkey donkey donkey, donkey donkey?
--News Radio -- Episode #57
WTF? (Score:1)
Human Bone?
What's the big deal? (Score:1)
the province shakes the liver moss barium generation
Chinese zither fiercely
Chinese Linux operating system? (Score:1)
I could not have said it better myself (Score:1, Redundant)
"Linux System: The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom; "
Other fun fishy translations (Score:2)
male
department
Jan
lies between
Sounds like Jan is having the time of her life.
business
industry
article
melts
Put down that trade mag Quick!! I'll get the fire extinguisher.
article
tune
star
presently
elephant
Uh, "?"
sends
unfolds
front
scenery
And let me tell you, she had some lovely front scenery.
Re:this is great? (Score:1)
Fuck software, we want handhelds powered by ideals!
Sorry to make fun, but you're clearly an idiot. You are the reason I can't convince my boss to run linux on our local webserver. You just spout off completely unfounded "facts" about linux, but where's the hard data that says linux is "10 times faster"?
This is the year 2002, and it's high time we started evaluating our software based on it's merits as software, not it's idealistic value.
Re:Chinese are Godless Commies (Score:1, Offtopic)
We are, once again, godless, at least in the 9th Circuit.
Re:Chinese are Godless Commies (Score:2)
Thank God for that...
Re:Chinese are Godless Commies (Score:2)
AMEN brother!
Wrong (Score:1)
FYI, there are over 10 religions with believers(not including Christian denominations) living in the US.
You must be that same intolerant bastard polluting the board with "White Pride" messages. Get lost. Nobody, if not most people on this board want to hear your racist trash.
Re:It is GUAN GONG, not GUAN DONG (Score:1)
More on this... (Score:1)
Re:More on this... (Score:1)
Re:walkpad... (Score:1)