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Info on the New iPAQ H3800

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hardware-to-lust-after dept.

Jason Dunn sent us to a link on his site about the new new iPaq which is due out relatively soon. Aesthetic changes, more memory, and I assume Linux will run on it as well or better then the existing models.

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  1. Re:This isn't a troll, just a question... by larien · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Never crashes? Dunno about Pocket PC 2002, but I've seen an iPaq 3630 get hosed with itself such that I couldn't start up Contacts. A soft reset cured that, though (i.e. a reboot).

    As for why use linux, well:

    • Because you can. Some people will try and run linux on everything that has a CPU and RAM. :) It's a geek thing, I think...
    • Custom uses; here you have nicely packaged hardware with a reasonable amount of RAM (go back 2-3 years and 64MB was a privilege!); I'm sure you could develop some good custom utilities that require portability (e.g. stock inventories in a warehouse). Using linux allows a custom kernel to be deployed making such tools more efficient (hopefully!) and/or making integration with an existing linux/Unix infrastructure easier. That said, many tools could simply be deployed as Pocket PC apps.
    Your point about being custom made is good, though. I bought mine as a PDA, not as a mobile computing platform. All I need is something to sync up contacts and calender info and the ability to browse the web using IR and a GSM phone. Pocket PC 3.0 lets me do this quite happily with Outhouse (not my choice; company standard) at work.