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YOPY Arrives

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the results-of-death-greatly-exaggerated dept.

Victor Tramp writes "Apparently the fabled Linux based YOPY handheld has been put on the market after all! Not only do they look like cool PDA versions of a Gameboy Advance SP (they fold), they look like they give the Zaurus a real run for the money, featurewise. Though the fastest processor is 206MHz, they include CompactFlash and MMC slots on the 3700 model. Apparently you can download their Linupy distro, too. And finally, they don't seem to be vaporware!"

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  1. Has anyone used one? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Yopy brings a whole new meaning to 'chiclet keyboard'. Has anyone who's used one comment?

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    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  2. Not a brick, suprisingly... by waytoomuchcoffee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First pic I saw I thought, uh uh another Clie-styled brick. However, the specs put it at only 7oz, much less than the high end clies. Still not as much as my Ipaq 1910 at a little over 4, but just a hair more than my old Palm III, but with a better form factor .

    I have to drool over the 2300mAh battery. Ack.

    While a Strongarm processor might not have the sex appeal of an Xscale, most of the Xscales are just empty promises for other handhelds. PPC 2002 doesn't support the Xscale's ARMv5 instruction set, and from the look of the upcoming Ipaq (which don't support v5 either but supposedly will have PPC 2003 installed), PPC 2003 won't either.

  3. I have a first-generation Yopy by Markus+Registrada · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I fooled with my first-generation Yopy for quite a while while I was unemployed.

    I haven't touched it in a year, because Gmate never released source for anything but the kernel. Worse, their web site had a place to upload things, but anything they didn't like, (like my cool USB base station mod, evidently [see the serial number?]) they just tossed, without a reply -- the upload would just vanish into the ether. (I uploaded three times just to be sure it was deliberate.)

    It appears they wanted people to write applications, but not to fool with the hardware or kernel.

    I hope they have got less contemptuous of hackers in days since. At this point I would be a lot more likely to order one of those Japan-only Zauruses.