Thread: Palm is releasing a Linux-based tablet?
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-05-30 , 03:42
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Reading the comments on PIC, the LifeDrive is generally considered to have been a disaster of a product (eg. "I don't see the LifeDrive as ANYTHING but an oversized, memory hobbled PDA").

This comment about the "mystery device" made me laugh though:

I essentially agree with Ryan on this one. I see it as something about the size of the Nokia n770/n800-sized (or perhaps a tad smaller) with a 20gb internal hard drive, a 640x480ish screen, and some kind of intelligent downclocking power management that will make traditional color PDA battery lives look pitiful in comparison.
How 2004 does that sound?! These Palm types sure do have low aspirations!!

I'm interested to see what Palm announce, but since they're probably going to go with ARM rather than x86 and will need WiFi, Bluetooth, a decent size screen and a camera why not just enter into a hardware licencing deal with Nokia and use the N800 as a hardware foundation for this new device but running Palms own brand of Linux? Heck, they could even take the stock Nokia/Debian/Maemo Linux and just drop their own GUI on top and call it done!
Last edited by Milhouse; 2007-05-30 at 03:44.