While we ponder if there will be a "real" tablet after the N900 phone, and/or a Maemo/Moblin netbook after the Booklet, a forgotten pioneer tries a comeback :

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news...ds-On+!!!.html

Edit : also,

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/s...zaurus-legacy/

"Sorry, no 3G data" :-)

I was just coming to post about the NetWalker, from over on pocketables.com

The Good: It's like a 5" netbook, running Ubuntu.

The Bad: .5GB RAM, not available in the US for at least a year, price seems slightly high.

(but I'm willing to be convinced about the price)

I can't tell from the gallery at akihabara whether or not there's a video out (one pic shows a port, on the side near the Q key, that might be a USB ... or something else; and there's what appears to be a micro-USB on the other side). A video-out and a USB port could make an interesting "take your (light) desktop with you" device. KVM at home to mobile/coffee-shop/meetings/etc. to KVM at work, and back again.

I will say that the rhinestone encrusted versions in that gallery don't impress me at all :-} Kind of find it off-putting, really. I don't think that's what people meant when they said they want mobile devices with Flash. ;-)

Pocketables shows it in 3 color schemes (white and copper, black and copper, and red and copper). I'd probably go with the black and copper one ... sans rhinestones ... :-)

The Engadget picture makes it more clear that that's a USB port.

So, I'm betting it doesn't have video-out.

Very cool, nice size. Not sure I like the jewelled case mind you

USB is good enough now that we have USB video out cards with good Linux support http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

Edit: Sorry meant DisplayLink for the video output. Ooops.

Not a touch screen though I presume, what with the two mouse buttons on the top left and the "optical Point" thing on the top right.

For me its main drawback is the absence of Bluetooth. Very silly.

Also, the Zaurus was never localized and distributed by Sharp anywhere outside Japan. We'll see if that changes...

Yes, it has both a touch screen (1024x600) and "optical mouse".

I don't understand touch screens on devices like this, and the Raon Everun Digital Note. You can't really use it like a tablet ... and on a 5" 1024x600 screen, your fingers are going to be WAY too fat to be accurate. Seems to me that it'd make more sense to just stick with the optical mouse pointer.

But maybe I'm wrong.

Uh.... those appear to be USB Cameras, not USB Video-Out (on the supported devices list).
DId you intend to reference a different site?