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Future Linux PDA by Samsung
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jimjag
on Fri Feb 04, 2000 10:42 PM
from the sam-sung-new-everybody-knows-one dept.
from the sam-sung-new-everybody-knows-one dept.
BigDaddyJ writes "I saw over on The Gadgeteer that Samsung has developed a PDA design that uses Linux. It has a color display and can play MP3's as well. Check it out here. You know you want it... but right now it appears they're still looking for suppliers. " Neato. Strange that the title for the Web page refers to it as a "Samsung USB PC Camera".
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Hmmmm.... (Score:3)
Follow me here -
Does Samsung really need suppliers?
Why is there no info on the amount of RAM?
It suggests that I can watch my soaps (oh joy) which implies a TV tuner which is not listed in the specs and I cannot believe they intend to deliver real time video in 65000 colors over a cell modem.
also no real information on the processor (strong high performance doesn't say any thing)
Then english translation is poor, which doesn't mean anything itself (mine isn't great either) but with every thing else...
As the story poster noted, the title of the page is wrong, which as an ex-webmaster suggests to me a copied page or misused template, this isn't to say that the product doesn't exist, but a major product like this some exec somewhere would complain. (at least the always caught my minor foo's =])
This looks to me more like a product concept, they may even have a prototype, but I'd be willing to bet they are nowhere near production with this.
I carry a Visor and love it, but if something like this were offered at a reasonable price, I'd be all over it. But I just don't this is will be that device any time soon.
Re:Which web browser? GPL issues? (Score:3)
Probably some Spyglass/Mosaic derivative. There have been a number of embedded platforms built up using that.
Well, the code is coming along. Take a look at the web site. Linux-USB.org [linux-usb.org]
This is probably most economically done by sticking a source code TARBALL on the CD that comes with the product.
They don't have to redistribute the source code to Spyglass Mosaic, if that's what they use as the web browser, and so long as it runs as a separate process.
They may have to include sources to customizations to GPLed or LGPLed libraries; this does not mandate releasing source code to applications that aren't linked to GPLed code.
In short, if there's a 660MB CD in the box, it won't likely hurt too much if they drop a couple tarballs in that occupy 50MB of it. Alternatively, they may take the approach Tivo [tivo.com] did, and offer to send out a CD with relevant source code for a relatively nominal cost.
This look real! Check out Gmate's Linux PDA (kr) (Score:4)
It's not clear from the info on Gmate's site whether the CHOPIN PDA and the Multimedia PDA are one and the same or whether Multimedia PDA is a more recent model, but it looks real enough. A lot of the questions raised by folk on this thread are answered on their site if you look around.
I love my Palm, but it'll be quite impossible *not* to buy the Gmate/Samsung PDA if it performs as described and does eventually reach these shores.
Re:Hmmmm.... (Score:3)
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction