It looks like you haven't clicked on my home page. The software image shown at Thinlinx is an X window dump affine mapped & antialiased. The GUI & point of sale application represented in the image have been on the market since '95. The GUI itself is based on X primitives and is rendered on the X server in real time using data from the remote client application. The software is not vaporware; it's the 3rd generation (as in total rewrite) of work I began 30 years ago. As far as the hardware goes I can't tell you any more than what you read at Thinlinx except to say that what you read there is accurate. It's fair to say that what you see there is, in the very near term, only a competitor to the 770 in the sense that they each can be used as a mobile point of sale device and that point of sale can finally be transformed into a personal productivity tool. I have a long background in all of this. I hope to play a big part in the continuation of what I started a long time ago.

The maturity of hardware such as this and the 770, converging with the maturation of wireless networking and countless other technologies has throw us all into the post-PC era, an era of useful, intuitive software from the network to mobile users. Anyone thinking 'ultra PDA' or 'needs more CPU power/memory' is going to see just a great PDA that they wish had more power and memory, though. This is about net-driven, collaborative, vertical market software for mobile users; it has nothing to do with handheld computers trying to deliver a portable version of the desktop.

You wrote not too long ago that, "I have optimism for the future though. I think as Linux takes over the PDA/cell world (like the A780), innovators will start to take risks with the GUI". That's pretty insightful, or maybe I just think so because I've been on a course for the last 30 years that is based on the premise that the only GUIs that can ever work are not only specific to the application of the moment but are totally customized for & by each person and useable wherever one is, whatever one is doing. Apple has X; when it grasps the value of remote X it could easily build hardware like this. But this isn't just about hardware, of course. It never was. It's about the GUI & the apps. It always was.