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Indian Linux PDA For $300

Posted by Hemos on from the more-competition dept.

raj2569 writes "Business Line is reporting that kaii (hand in South Indian languages), a Linux PDA to hit the market in Oct. Based on Hitachi SH7727 @ 160MHz, with 64 MB SDRAM, 32 MB Flash, 3.5" Colour TFT (320x240x64k-16 bit) and USB host controller, the device looks cool. The monochrome will be priced at $200"

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  1. Silicon valley? by lamz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look out U.S./Canada/Japan! Is this the first of a flood of new products to come out of India?

    Luckily for me, I believe in capitalism, and I say the more the merrier.

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    Mike van Lammeren
    It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.

  2. The company is a sham by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't consider buying a PDA like this from a company who has 75% of the pages on their site "under construction" (animated gif and all) with pictures of their product being computer rendered 3-D models.

    Come on people! Whether this is a real product or not, it doesn't look to me like it has a cold chance in hell of taking off, the company just doesn't look like they have their act together properly. The "Agenda" had their act together a whole lot more than this company and the product went nowhere.

    -Pete

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  3. Re:Interesting, but... by jilles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's more than a billion indians. Most of them indeed are not very rich but there's a sizeable, though relatively small, upperclass that can afford this kind of stuff. Considering the unicode abilities of the device, they can always ship versions for other countries (e.g. china, middle east, etc.).

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    Jilles
  4. Don't be fooled by its price. Look... by jsse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) The picture is computer generated
    2) Linux on the Kaii is under construction? I could understand that but
    3) Java on the Kaii are under construction? Worse still
    4) Application section is under construction...not to mention
    5) Peripheral Information is also under construction
    6) and most important...Developer program is also under construction....

    3) and 6) is unacceptable for developers. Yopy and Nokia 92x0 release developers programs and emulators/developers model at least half a year before final launch. Unless they are as big as Microsoft which could single-handedly create a market for their products, even big corp like Nokia need a developer community to survive.

    I think common handheld developers will see that this PDA is not even existed! This propaganda could be used to seek VC money and publicity, but it can't fool us geeks....can it?