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Linux PDA From China

Posted by Hemos on from the marching-to-the-beat-of-freedom dept.

hama writes "There is a new Linux PDA from China from a Beijing Firm Golden Global View who has been in the PDA/Digital Dictionary Market in China/Hong Kong/Taiwan for some time. The model is WalkPad GP1288 with a SRP of RMB1288 in China. Use the fish if you cannot read Chinese." My favorite fishism in here is the "The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom."

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  1. Linux on PDA, SO? by WellHungYungWun · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Most of the people using the PDA's won't even have a clue what Linux is, or how it came about. The only thing my Boss cares about on his PDA is if it can sync with his email. Let's face the facts, the only reason the companies would even try to leverage Linux over Palm is completely due to licensing costs. I feel PalmOS is a Superior OS for PDA's, proven thus far, but I can't speak for much as I have only compared it to WinCE.

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    "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
  2. actually useful by johnjones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    maybe this will be actually useful but I dont see what they are useing as the windowing system

    also they use the Toshiba TX3911 a MIPS but they clock it real low

    (the tx39XX was the part done for sony EE was it not ?)

    and anyone who has actually tried to use a sharp zarus when away from the office knows its not much use as the power dies because of the LCD the same is true of fancy CE machines
    (when will people learn that haveing your contacts in colour is pointless if you cant see it better to go with greyscale and have a couple of extra hours of use)

    they claim USB & networking is this built in ?
    (I dont remember tosh doing a mips part with eth MAC on chip)

    my hopes are high that this will work I am curious to how they get input and what they use to display CJK chars

    regards

    john jones

  3. Re:not cool... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    uhh...that was made by the www.altavista.com translator, not a real person. Its hard as hell to program a translator to get all forms of grammer from launguage to language right.