New Linux-based PDA due September

Bill Kendrick writes "LinuxDevices.com has a preview of a new Linux-based PDA due out next month. Some of you might recognize the form-factor; it's from Softfield, the folks who ended up with the rights to the first commercial Linux-based PDA, the black-and-white, MIPs-based Agenda VR3. Softfield's new model, the MX-7, sports a 200MHz CPU, full-color 240x320 display, 32MB Flash and 64MB RAM, an SD card slot, and Trolltech's Qtopia environment. All for $299 USD."

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Re:As a recent pocket pc purchaser.....

[RevAaron]

Heh! I like this idea!

Except, of course, it'd be kind of the polar opposite of Apple's campaign. Ellen Feiss wouldn't be talking about switching from the beeping computer that didn't work right to one that did... Instead, she'd be like

"Well, so yeah, my dad bought this little computer... It think they call it like a pee dee aay. He says it means it is cool. So, I was like writing a paper for class in TextMaker, and I was going to save it to RTF and email it to my teacher and suddenly I was like- so Mr PDA, what is your deal? Why haven't you crashed? IS THAT ALL YOU GOT IN YOU? This sucks! Like, I totally like my computer to give me a little fight.

So I realized then my life was incomplete. I tell my dad, HEY BUTTWAD, you gotta get me a Linux PDA! And then it was like WOW THIS IS SO COOL! And I took my new toy to school and I was like Hey GUYS!! I RULE! I am so much l33t, much more than j00!!!1 So I was like HEY! Look, I can SSH. And my girlfriend was like ''but what about useful apps?? My WinCE can SSH 2, so who cares ellen da felon?'' And i was liek fCUK j00! It runs Linux ! You know, the ULTIMATE KILLER APP!"

And then, it pans out from Ellen's head, and the whole building burns down. I bet it'd be pretty cool.