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New YOPY Screenshots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-when-is-this-not-beta-already? dept.

FWMiller writes: "Theres a bunch of new screenshots up on Samsung's new PDA, the YOPY. This thing looks really slick, emulating the Windows CE user interface quite closely." The images are in a tgz, and they look real. They demo an addressbook, and MP3 player and other apps that apparently would ship with the nifty Linux based PDA. I still haven't seen a ship date (or an english version of the software for that matter ;) so I'm not holding my breath too hard. Although after playing with Kurt The Pope's Jornada, I'm dying to see what they can do.

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  1. The obvious question... by MostlyHarmless · · Score: 5

    The first thing that should pop into anybody's head as soon as they hear this is:

    "Who would want to emulate Windows CE's interface?"
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  2. Looks nice, but... by JonMintz · · Score: 5

    Palm OS developer/Handspring founder Jeff Hawkins's "Zen of Palm" (essentially, simplify as much as possible for a palmtop unit) really holds true with current hardware limitations.

    Now, if you could give me something the size of a Palm V, with the Fitaly stamp keyboard instead of Graffiti or handwriting recogninition (plus an optional folding full-size StowAway keyboard), expansion as easy and versatile as Handspring's Springboard but as small as Sony's Memory Stick, a high-quality color display for large resolutions, built-in wireless connectivity, and long-lasting rechargable batteries...well, then you'd really have a amazingly powerful, functional palm device. Deliver it at a reasonable price point and the world will beat a path to your door.

    But it looks like Samsung is taking a big step in the race for the ultimate PDA.

    1. Re:Looks nice, but... by kootch · · Score: 3
      "But it looks like Samsung is taking a big step in the race for the ultimate PDA."

      That's only if you believe there is such a thing as the ultimate PDA. A PDA doesn't have to be of the Palm/Handspring genre, but can instead me any small mobile device that has organizing and functional abilities incorporated into it.

      Personally, I'm sick of the genre. I'd like a PDA that had the ability to call a phone number from my phone/address book, to listen to and search for mp3's and listen to them as they stream out of thin air into my headphones, etc.

      But while I want one Palm-sized device, I would also like a miniature device that would function just as a phone with some additional functionality but be able to sync against my Palm, a miniature laptop that could sync to both my phone and my Palm, and a way to sync all of these devices and maybe 20 more all together, each specializing in one thing instead of having a big cell phone that tries to act like a PDA.

      ultimate PDA you say? Ha. you'll wish you were only carrying 1 gadget 10 yrs from now.

  3. Re:YOPY Go Home by TerryG · · Score: 3

    My snide remark:

    The simple answer is to turn your machine (PDA, cell phone, beeper, etc.) off.

    I like my hammer as much as the next guy...I don't use it in restaurants though.

    TGL

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  4. Mirror (actually, uncompressed pics available at.. by kashent · · Score: 5

    http://www.pdabuzz.com/Features/Yopy.html Seems to be the new pics. (not sure, since my download is crawling)

  5. Battery Life by NetJunkie · · Score: 3

    If you read the Yopy FAQ it mentions battery life being 6 hours. 6 hours!?! For a PDA?! I wanted one before, but I don't know now....

  6. Re:Mirror (actually, uncompressed pics available a by po_boy · · Score: 3

    Those aren't the same images as in the tarball. They are cool, though.

  7. Anyone who is interested in this... by tilly · · Score: 4

    Check out Microwindows. If you need an interface for an application which may run on a Linux PDA, you are likely to use this little beauty. Plus anyone who thinks that X is awful should take note. By developing things using Microwindows you can get applications - today - that run under X and also can run with a far lighter windowing interface...

    Cheers,
    Ben

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  8. Re:What's with this file? by Shoeboy · · Score: 4

    Smoking Joe,
    The hallowed and supa-1337 trolls of slashdot have embraced me. Yea verily spiralx has clasped me to his manly bosom and let me suckle at the teat of trolldom. There is great rejoicing in shoeboy land and a major party in my pants.
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  9. pervasive tech by Ryandav · · Score: 4

    Actually, there have been some wonderful editorials on this topic in the NYTimes print edition, although I am unable to find any of them (anyone know of an editorial index online?) at the moment.

    The gist is, as we allow technology into our lives, we have to make it slave to us, not enslave ourselves to it. Luddites complain that cellphones keep us apart and remote while techno-enthusiasts claim it brings us together. My arkansas mother claims she talks more in email with her remote family now that she did on the phone in a year, while a fellow LUG officer I know turns his pager off the minute he leaves work because it stresses him out to be "too-connected". The truth is that tech can do both, enslave us or serve us, and it's all in the amount of control that you have technology to have in your life. Do you feel ABSOLUTELY COMPELLED to answer a ringing phone? It is in _your_ home, for _your_ convenience, and if you are busy, then let it ring and lose the stress. If you're in class, TURN YOUR FRIGGIN CELL PHONE OFF unless you just happen to be part of the 1% of the population that absolutely HAS to be reachable 24/7, and in that case, use the vibrate feature that almost all of them come with now.

    tech is what you make of it, like many other things...

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  10. What is the point of YOPY? by Trinition · · Score: 3
    Why do we need a Linux-based PDA? All right, it can be Linux-based, but it had better be a PDA.

    If they're just shrinking down a computer into a handheld format, then it's a handheld computer. Smaller screen, different input mechanism. But that doesn't make it a PDA.

    Besides being small, durable and portable, a PDA should above all else be an assistant -- as in Personal Digital Assitant.

    That means having software thats tailored to doing PDA-like things: checking off tasks, reading e-mail, looking up addresses, etc. It must be able to do all of these PDA-like things very quickly and easily.

    As a veteran of many WinCE/PPC/PalmOS debates, it is still my opinion that Windows CE and PocketPC are designed to be handheld computers more than a PDA. Microsoft started moving in the right direction by simplifying the user interface, but the fact is, it remains built upon a non-PDA-oriented OS.

    Is YOPY just going to be a Linux version of Windows CE? The most important thing about a PDA, the human interface, is said to be already emulating Windows CE, according to the author.

  11. Yopy links (FULL) by DigitalDragon · · Score: 3
    Yopy in the news

    http://slashdot .org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/0858200&mode=thread
    http://linuxtoday.com/stories/17660.html
    http://www.geeknews.org/news/fe b00/newsitem090.html
    http://www.palmstation.com/ view_article.py?article=1786
    http://www.pdabuzz.com/Features/Yopy.html
    http://slashdot .org/article.pl?sid=00/02/27/1027237&mode=thread
    http://www.pcworld.com /pcwtoday/article/0,1510,15486,00.html
    http://www.ch ip.de/PC2D/PC2DB/PC2DBA/pc2dba.htm?id=323&ressort= 20 (German)
    http://www.twomobile.com/new_032200_y opy.html (obviously they didn't credit the source of the pictures and video footage!)
    http://ore illy.linux.com/pub/a/network/2000/05/05/magazine/L inuxPDA.html
    http://www.handheldmed.com/code/news /yopi1.htm
    http://www.gnn.de/0005/7603.html (German)
    http://www.p cwelt.de/content/news/newprodukte/2000/05/xn090500 003.html (German)

    Company sites, product information

    http://www.sem.samsung.co.kr/ eng/product/digital/pda/
    http://www.gmate.co.kr

    Links to other Yopy and general Linux-PDA ressources

    http://www.palmtopmagazin.de/board/linux Discussion about Linux-PDAs (German)
    http://www.palmtopmagazin.de/news/linux Linux-PDA news (German)
    http://www.theyopy.de German Yopy fan site
    http://www.handhelds.org Linux-Development for Compaq iPaq
    http://www.yopy.org Another Yopy fan site


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