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Review of YOPY YP-3700 Linux PDA
Andrew Baxter writes "Ian Giblin is a senior contributing editor to bargainPDA.com for all things Linux. In his latest review Ian brings an in depth look at the YOPY YP-3700 from G.Mate, Ian informs us that "this device is geeky, and I mean Battlestar Galactica geeky" and that it is "undoubtedly the most linuxy handheld device I've seen. It out-linuxes the Sharp Zaurus range." Read on for many pictures, device specs and in depth information on this Linux PDA device now available in the U.S. and also South Korea."
Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad
Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom
I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin
Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em
but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes?
My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler
once I learn gcc,
I'ma go on and compile for hours
I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry
I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even read all your bullshit Linux news and Microsoft's man
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
I like the way you sold your ass out too, that shit was fat
Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan
Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's FSCKED UP you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old
We waited on a 9600 baud for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to
Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you
you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
I never had a clue about shit either
I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her
I can relate to what you're saying in your page
so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to begin the rage
cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest
Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods
It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood
See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
We should be together too
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Waste-A-Packet-On-My-Fans,
this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass
It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
I know you got my last two emails
I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect
So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 baud so fear it
Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code?
You know the song by Deep Purple or Slayer
its irrelevant by playing on my linux player
while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer
That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy
and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall
I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it
You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to code
Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin from the comode
but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you
cause if rm -rf'd we'd suffer more, and then the boxes
I thought the PDA was dead?!?
Jeez, make up your mind!
I hereby make this post, which is entirely off-topic, for the point of sacrificing karma to the Gods of Preliminary Examinations, with the not-serious prayer that Lucas passes his prelims today. Good luck. Take away karma by modding me down! Oh, and by the way, BSD is dead.
Read Bujold. Free (as in
Can he get a patent on that word? It's the first time I've seen it.
I thought PDA's were "dead" anyway, according to an earlier submission.
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
here ;)
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
Is that code for non-intuitive, hard to use for first timers, full of superflouous and badly labelled options, and a sparse, out of date manual written by someone who barely speaks english?
When I hear "this is more linuxy", that's what I think of. I mean, is slackware not more "linuxy" than lindows or redhat?
For the record, I use slackware, but I can't see the desire for an aggravating PDA. The main reason to buy one is as an orginizational tool to make one more productive.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
only zit-faced, stinking, unkept, homosexual dorks would get off on it.
I hope they are not running their web site on this little thing, because their sites is already slashdotted... Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "[Death|Demise] of the PDAs"... =)
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
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Yawn.
Linux PDA device now available in the U.S. and also South Korea
and also in Europe on http://www.yopy.at...
Trolling using another account since 2005.
mod the parent post to Score: -1, Flaimbate
thx.
"The 3700 has a 2300 mAh Lithium Polymer battery that is not user-replaceable."
So it's got iPod syndrome. Seeya.
Uh, there is something misspelled. It's "Homos" not "Hemos". Get a spell checker you idiots.
No joy here, it appears "bargainpda.com" uses "bargainisp.com"..
Trolling is a art,
does it run Windows CE???
and that it is "undoubtedly the most linuxy handheld device I've seen. It out-linuxes the Sharp Zaurus
./ material!
Any review that uses the phrases "linuxy" and "out-linuxes" is definitely
In a world with $199 PocketPC's and sub $100 PalmOS devices, a $449-$499 device without builtin wireless doesn't cut it.
Its a competitive PDA market out there right now, and Dell is the one that is cleaning up. They have the right idea.
i am getting me one of those...
that thing is slicker than "snot on a doorknob"...
I'd rather buy the tried and true Sharp Zaurus, which BTW have a more complete line in features and prices.
ian@gergin.net
You haven't see slack in your life.
Nice troll. Now get a life.
I had the opportunity to play with the Yopy, and it's really a great machine. It's very exciting to have its own web & sql server in the pocket actually, and the hand-writing recognition is very good. By the way, the distributor in Europe for Yopy is "TuxMedia":
http://www.tuxmedia.com/
The screenshots remind me of kde2. Is it running qt embedded?
Not even a link to the actual article.
Besides it is distributed in Europe, what are europeans supposed to do with a device that hasn't a proper keyboard ?
.... Most of the documents and emails I exchange absolutely need proper spelling including the wierd characters.
If I can't bring fench texts with me and be able to use any iso-8859-1/15 typed it is like using a disabled device. You know these non-us-ascii characters like e, e, i, i,
(Even slashdot can't handle this because it's engine is english onwly centric and it eated e from my user name her which should be Lea.)
Any widely distributed PDA comes with a proper local keyboard layout. Yopy is a too short maket to be able to handle localised keyboards. This look like a recurrent problem with little series, small distributions, underground things like Yopy.
I would have enjoyed it if it had a french keyboard.
Léa Gris
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For 179 USD, you can't go wrong.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I think this PDA makes a lot more sense for Linux users than the Zaurus.
I have the Zaurus. I thought I could live with QPE, but I can't. The built-in apps on the Zaurus are far worse than on the Palm and still somewhat worse than the PocketPC apps, so the Zaurus doesn't make a good PDA; its main use is for nerd-type apps: ssh, network analysis, etc. But for that, its use of QPE is a major problem: very few of the standard GUI apps can be ported over. Furthermore, when you plug the Zaurus into a network, you can only display its native GUI apps remotely in a tiny VNC window.
The Yopy, by being fully desktop compatible with Linux and X11, avoids these problems. Its PDA apps may still not measure up to Palm, but at least its fully a Linux PDA.
(Oh, and don't tell me that I can install handhelds.org on the Zaurus--I know I can, but it's a pain to install. And, besides, it's the same as with PocketPC--why would I want to pay for a device so that part of the money goes to licensing software that I didn't want in the first place?)
In my opinion, if you want the best PDA, get a Palm--the OS sucks but the apps are good. If you want a Linux-y PDA, the Yopy looks like the best choice.
Yopy took forever to finally reach the market, even just in Europe and Canada. By the time it did, the SA-1100 was no longer produced ...
Anyone here know about a PXA-255 based Yopy?
OK chaps and chapesses... here was a perfect opportunity to make a break from the tyranny of the QWERTY layout... it has been demonstrated time and time again that the qwerty layout was only devised to slow down typists so that manual tripewriters wouldn't jam their keys so often... so why on earth is having a qwerty key layout seen as an advantage??? especially in a format this small... You can't touch type with those keys... and if you can then you must have miniature hands... typing with that thing WILL be hunt and peck with a "stylus" so having an alphabetical layout would make far more sense. Plus you wouldn't have to have a special "azerty" layout for the French market either when you came to put it there...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I was once accused of having a linuxgasm.
It has NEVER been shown that QWERTY was devised to slow down typists, except on urbanlegend.com! By the way, I visited a posh lab where everyone was allowed to play with new and different keyboard designs and they didn't type much! The lab closed down soon after due to lack of publications.
...is their site really /.'ed, or is it simply hosted on a Yopy?
...that the screenshots look like a bastardized version of Mac System 7 and Windows 95?
Look at the sound "control panel" and the multimedia menu icon. Straight out of System 7. The "Start" menu and other various icons definitely have a Microsoft look to them.
Yopy.com is running a survey on which operating system people use. Check out the results! This is the nerd handheld. Gotta get me one.
Afaik accents are supported (at least in French). TuxMedia is not only a distributor, they do localization for the Yopy.
Is there anybody here who's having difficulty using google or dealtime?
I mean, this is RIGHT UP THERE too...
About.com YOPY 3700 review
If you are having trouble and are still relying on Sir Haxalot for clickage, for a mere $10.00 plus ($250 S/H) I will send you a beautifully embossed 7 CD portofolio to will instruct you, STEP BY STEP, on how to use Google and the Internet in general. Satisifaction guaranteed!
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
How cool is that all-inline keyboard!
I ordered this and was wondering the same thing, so I did some googling.
Here's a couple web sites I found:
Zaurus Software Index
Open Zaurus
Besides it is distributed in Europe, what are europeans supposed to do with a device that hasn't a proper keyboard ?
Learn a proper language, you onion selling, stripy jumper wearing tosspot.