Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Royal Linux PDA To Ship This Quarter
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 06:30 AM
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3278017987.html
"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."
It is a good thing there is a community out there willing to write software for Linux because the software on the PDA looks pretty bad. A horizonal scroll bar in contacts?
$400 for the device is a bit much too. It is rather anemic looking compared to the features offered by the similarly priced iPAQ 2215, which throws in a faster processor, a compact flash slot, bluetooth and a lot more apps in ROM, saving RAM for other things. I thought Linux was supposed to make cheap devices possible? :confused totally:
"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."
It is a good thing there is a community out there willing to write software for Linux because the software on the PDA looks pretty bad. A horizonal scroll bar in contacts?
$400 for the device is a bit much too. It is rather anemic looking compared to the features offered by the similarly priced iPAQ 2215, which throws in a faster processor, a compact flash slot, bluetooth and a lot more apps in ROM, saving RAM for other things. I thought Linux was supposed to make cheap devices possible? :confused totally:
