This could be a very cool thing, depending on what you need and want in
a PDA. I have been coveting the new Zaurus with the pop-down keyboard,
beautiful big screen, and real, built-in Linux. The potential to easily
move stuff between my Linux boxen and PDA is very appealing, and not
really possible with my 5th and current PDA, a Compaq Ipaq. The Ipaq
was purchased by my former boss for me so that I could
setup/manage/tailor his Ipaq. This may sound silly, but setting up the
various connectoids, email profiles and various other settings on a
miniature version of Windoze is much more complex and needlessly
complicated than the same actions on a PalmOS device. Needless to say,
I don't like WinCE, and have wanted to buy a Zaurus, but the price of a
new unit is too high, so I decided to buy a snap-on keyboard that is
functionally similar to the Zaurus' and to load one of the Ipaq Linux
distros. I will lose the very useful pocket street maps, but I'll gain
much more. I think the retail price is usually $500 for the Zaurus. It
sounds like a great deal to me for a mini linux-box-in-your-pocket. If
you're just looking for an electronic organizer, though, go buy a
handspring.
-Jeff
whenever wrote:
I got my hand on a zaurus from a friend today, it's running Linux with
QT, pretty good PDA, too bad the sync software that came with the unit is
windows based, I got to download the linux hot sync program, but too lazy to
recompile the kernel for usb-ppp support. There are some software out there
for it, free sdk, gcc cross compiler and some pre-compiled binaries. He's
willing to sell me the unit for $275, what do you guys think? Oh, it also
has 32mb SD memory added on, the unit based on ARM 206Mhz, can do mpeg-1 and
mp3, 64k TFT color screen, take CompactFlash and SD.
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