Telepongs Linux Handheld in June

Danny writes: "infoSync has got a interesting story about a mobile terminal running on Linux, which is supposed to be available in June 2002. From the pictures to tell, it's really cool -- and it supports GSM/GPRS, has a 65K color display and comes with a camera interface and a joystick for playing games." Now mind you such cool devices will take years to get to the U.S., but wow, that's a crazy looking device. Me Like-ee.

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telepong site, etc

[Alien54]

Our handsets are not meant to compete head-on with classic voice-centered mobile phones," Telepong's CEO Christoph Atzwanger, emphasizes. "They are closer to game and messaging consoles and are focused on enabling and supporting non-voice 2.5 G and 3 G services."

That's for sure

And Yes, there is a Telepong.com with a truly large picture (1700x1700) for your closeups of the device

but otherwise the site is still a bit content lite.

Re:Tweens? [OT]

[Mu*puppy]

Apparently, you're not a Tolkien fan. :)

from The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 1, fifth paragraph, fifth sentence:

"At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties
between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three."

Mu*puppy: 'tween' and damn proud of it.

Re:Question about filesystems...

[rhekman]

If it's similar to the handheld Linux's like Familiar, they probably use JFFS2, the journaling flash file system. It does compression and intelligently minimizes writes to flash devices. Another one is CRAMFS, a popular choice for embedded 2.4 systems .

Regards,
Reid