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Royal Linux PDA Finally Coming To Market
An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com: 'After a false start and a delay, Royal appears ready at last to ship its Linux-based PDA, the Linea LX. The Linux LX is now expected to arrive this quarter, priced at $399. The device will be based on a 200MHz Motorola i.MX1 MDragonBall processor equipped with 64MB of SDRAM and 32MB of Flash memory, and will include Trolltech's Qtopia graphical framework and PIM suite.'"
but at first glance I read that as Royal Family Linux PDA coming to market.
try carrying that in your pocket though...
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Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Just put Windows CE on it. Problem solved.
Compare it to say, the h2210.
Maybe Linux PDA users aren't fashion conscious, but if i've paid a small fortune for a PDA, it would be nice if it didn't look like something by Fisher Price.
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But you're forgetting the endorsement by Prince Charles.
"If I'd had one of these a few years back, I could have kept all my dates with Camilla encrypted and locked away from prying eyes. The Voice over IP support would have allowed us to chat over a secure chanel, so our phone sex sessions would have remained undetected. I'd still be married, Diana would still be alive, and no one would know that both Diana and I had lovers on the side. Everyone would have been happy!"
Cut to shot of Charles' hand holding up the PDA.
Voice over: "Linea LX, let it save your wife's life today."
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Something just puts me off about buying anything other than toys, cards, and videos, with the word 'Dragonball' in its name. (Especially a processor... can it go Super Saiyan for temporarily increased processor speed at the cost of battery usage?) What marketing genius came up with the name anyway? I can hardly imagine someone in a board room suggesting this, and having even one person agree that it was a good name, let alone people who can actually make it happen.
In a related yet unrelated bit, there is a martial artist named Carlos Newton who calls his style Dragonball Z Jiu Jitsu. Do you think anyone took him seriously before he won his first UFC title? I suppose that could work in this PDA's favor, in terms of word of mouth advertising...
-computer store employee- Can I help you find anything?
-uninformed PDA buyer- My friend recommened I get the one with a Dragonball thing?
-computer store employee- Right this way...
$399 = 3 * 7 * 19
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For the same price, I could put together an AthlonXP 2500+ with 512 megs of memory, a real hard drive, and a cd-burner.
Are you including the price of batteries for the AthlonXP setup? I wonder how big a NiCad pack you'd need to get 4 hours of life.
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Aha! I knew you had a hidden agenda.
Royal Linux Release 2.6 (Vegeta) for DragonBall
Kernel 2.6.1
Login:Goku
Password:********
Then, just name the Email client "Gohan", the Office Suite "Saiyan", and the mp3 player "Android 17" and you'd probably have the market cornered in no time. ;)