Linux PDA From China

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."

Comments

Chinese Translation and Some Comments

[Anonymous Coward]

This is more or less what it is saying:

Spec:
Model: GP1288 Retail price: 1498 Yuan
Flash Memory: 32M NAND Flash
Memory: 16M SDRAM
Screen: 160*240 STN16 [steps] grey scale, Hand writing touch screen
IrDA: maximum 115200bps
Backgorund illumination: EL
Battery: Lithium Rechargable, 680mAh, fully recharged in 8 hours, last for one month in standby

Main Features Overview:

• Linux system: the world's only Chinese Linux OS, even more stable and more freedom
  
• Infrared: Initernational standard infrared transmission, capable of sending and receiving short messages, no obstacles in communication
  
• Networking: exciting handy networking, electronic email sent any time
  
• USB: high-speed USB transmission, information communication, power rechargable to the fullest any time you feel like it
  
• eXpardable [sic]: high degree of usable extension space, upgradable continuously to even newer customized worlds [*shrug*]
  
• 32M-character flash memory, 16M-character Ram, usable space up to 840,000 Chinese characters, super large memory space completely in your hand
  
• with MP3 play-back capability, super long time digital recording
  
• handy mobile keyboard
  
• convenient digital library
  
• powerful dictionary functionality, contains 110,000 word English-Chinese, 60,000 word Chinese-English dictionaries and many professional dictionaries available for download
  
• extremely customizable language, motion, visual alarm functionality
  

Of course, I am interested to know how it recognizes Chinese hand writing. Do they have to simplify the strokes? And whether its translation from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English is as bad as the fish's.

I mean, I still don't care about the different Chinese input methods. They are either impossible to learn in a few minutes, or they use pinyin or something like that. That has made me a read-only person as far as Chinese is concerned. If the thing has a good hand-writing recognition program, we can always expand that to a hand-writing device for an ordinary PC.

Anyhow.