Review Of Yopy 3700 Linux PDA

SecondToughest writes "Gizmodo has a recent post referring to a review of the new Yopy 3700 Linux-based PDA. The reviewer seems to like it: 'Overall, this is beautiful hardware. The design is compact when not in use, but when opened the Yopy is quite user friendly. The really great thing about this PDA is the presence of both MC and CF card slots. To me, this is almost the perfect PDA design.'"

Comments

Sync with Windows only?

[FosterSJC]

Is this a joke:

"At this point the Yopy is only designed to sync with the Windows Operating System."

So I am supposed to dual-boot, first developing my own software in Linux, then boot into windows just to load it onto the device. NO THANK YOU. Zaurus it is.

You see

[Mr_Silver]

... the majority of people (ie. non Slashdot crowd) who will buy a PDA don't give a flying toss about what the underlying operating system is.

For them:

• It must do all the general PIM stuff well
• It must be stable
• It must be feature rich
• It must support whatever media they currently use (MMC, SD etc.etc)
• It must sync with their computer (note they say "computer" when they generally mean "windows").

The fact that it's Linux based is not going to be a major selling point. When your data is on MC and CF cards, thats a major selling point.

A story: One of my co-workers asked me what I thought about the up and coming Linux based Motorola phone. My comment was that the fact it was running Linux makes absolutely no difference. If Motorola implement the same horribly awkward , difficult to use and ugly interface that they have then nothing will have really changed.

The underlying OS is largely irrelevant, it's what runs on top that makes all the difference.