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Oops, I meant Samsung, of course. Sorry.
I found this page, which is quite outdated but has some info on how yopy started out.

You can find out more (including price) at This site

I'm not sure, but could they have Apache running on this thing?

The crinkly bits compared to a palm are:

• 235 MIPS @ 206 MHz (Palm is 2.7 MIPS @ 16MHz)
• 2.5 million transistors in 0.35 micron technology (image if they made it in 0.18 mircron!)
• IO = USB, IrDA, serial, audio/telecom CODECs, PCMCIA, CompactFlash
• Color/grey scales LCD at 1024x1024. However, the only touchscreens it advertises that it works with are 320x240 pixel screens.

The pictures on the original page indicate that Linux will run out of 32-megs of ROM and 32-megs of RAM. It also looks like SAMSUNG is going to try to take advantage of all the chip's features (the disappointing thing about Palm is that they didn't take advantage of all the Dragonball's features).

The thing to remember is that Samsung is like only putting together a reference design from Intel with a reference implementation of Linux (probably from Lineo) and standard off-the-shelf apps (like MP3 players) with minor modifications. The PDA-style apps are probably the Lineo PDA suite. Getting all this to work well in a limitted power budget will be tough enough. The first version will probably not contain any wizbang features beyond this.

The burning questions I have:

• Does it come with a TCP/IP stack?
• Does it use X Windows?

OK, Samsung. This is probably the single coolest PDA I've ever seen. Period. But, that being said, a few things need to be done before it's pushed out to the masses.

First, the User Interface is a disaster. The Start button makes me sick and the fonts look like a throw-back from the DOS days. And it might be a good idea to interface through USB, as Linux 2.3 [soon to be 2.4] supports USB. Win98 supports USB. [Free, Net, Open]BSD[i] supports USB as well.

And maybe you should chat with the XMMS team before you finalize your MP3 player's interface. It looks kind of gawky.

But, look. It's an awesome CPU. Nice and healty memory, and look at that LCD!

• 240x320 Backlight color screen
• 206Mhz ARM processor
• RS232c and USB
• 32MB RAM, 32MB Flash Rom(?)
• Internal Web browser
• MP3 player funcationality (what's missing?)
• MPEG support
• 4Mbps IR
• Voice Recording
• Stereo headphone jack
• Audio in/out jack

Taken from the specs page

Strong CPU of High Performance

Is anyone able to narrow that down a little bit???

If you look on the right side of this pic it appears to have an ARM running at 206 MHz, and 32 MB RAM. Not too shabby.

Course, to me it looks just like a WinCE ripoff but with crappy fonts (i.e. the "START/" button...), but what do I know. At least MP3 and a web browser are nice.

I'm sure there was a radio button in one of those picture.
I wonder what it will do. Possibly a radio card or something>

WHUZZA?

The Picture With The Button

Jayson Byrne

Now, on the poster in this picture, it mentions voice recording as a feature. Silly me.

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That looks really cool, with the web browser and the integrated video. It also apparently does e-mail and plays mp3s and whatnot, but I'd still want an xterm mode. :)

Anyhow, here's the picture with the specs. It's got a 200Mhz ARM chip (probably for low power consumption) and 32MB RAM. Anyone have more info on this?
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According to this picture, it plays mp3s and has support for wireless email. No voice recording, though.

It does look pretty nifty. Beats WinCE any day. *And* it plays Ricky Martin songs, so you know it's good!

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