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Commercial products:
Research devices:
The
iPAQ H3XXX is a hand-held pocket device, first introduced to the
market in April, 2000.
Compaq iPAQ H3600 Series
- CPU - Intel StrongARM SA1110 processor (up to
206MHz)
- 32 MB of SDRAM and 16MB of flash
- 320x240 4096 color display, ambient light sensor,
touchscreen, buttons
- Built-in microphone, stereo audio out, mono speaker
- Serial and slave USB via cradle
- 115Kbps and 4Mbps IrDA
- Expansion packs
The base unit slides into expansion packs for outstanding
expandibility. Expansion packs can provide additional flash
and RAM, battery power, as well as other capabilities.
Expansion packs include:
- Compact flash
- PCMCIA
- Other expansion packs are under development
Programming specifications
of the Compaq iPAQ H3600 are already available.
Mechanical/electrical specifications for building option packs
will be available soon. Project status is
available, along with installation directions.
Linux kernel sources
for this device are hosted on handhelds.org and is
tracking the Linux development stream as closely as
possible.
Compaq iPAQ H3100 Series
The iPAQ H3100 monochrome handheld is very similar to the
H3600, except it has a monochrome screen and less DRAM.
- CPU - Intel StrongARM SA1110 processor (up to
206MHz)
- 16 MB of SDRAM
- 16MB of flash (organized 16-bit wide)
- 320x240 4-bit monochrome display, ambient light sensor,
touchscreen, buttons
- Built-in microphone, stereo audio out, mono speaker
- Serial and slave USB via cradle
- 115Kbps and 4Mbps IrDA
- Expansion packs
Compaq iPAQ H3800 Series
The iPAQ H3800 color handhelds are very similar to the
H3600 series. Here are the base specs:
- CPU - Intel StrongARM SA1110 processor (up to 206MHz)
- 64 MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash
- 320x240 16-bit color display, ambient light sensor,
touchscreen, buttons
- Built-in microphone, stereo audio out, mono speaker
- Serial and slave USB via cradle
- 115Kbps and 4Mbps IrDA
- SecureDigital card slot
- Expansion packs
The H3870 includes built-in bluetooth support.
The Compaq Aero
1500 and 2100 series pocket and palm size PC's can run
Linux via the LinuxCE
project.
The
Itsy Pocket Computer is a research prototype developed in
Compaq's Western
Research Laboratory in 1998. The latest version (V2.3)
has:
- CPU - Digital (Intel) StrongARM SA1100 processor (up to
200MHz)
- 32MB of DRAM and 32MB of flash (expandable up to 128MB
of DRAM and 160MB of flash with optional daughter
cards).
- 320x200 16-level grayscale display, touchscreen,
buttons
- Built-in microphone, mono audio in and out, mono
speaker
- Serial and slave USB; Li-ion battery charges from
USB
- 115Kbps and 4Mbps IrDA
- 2-axis accelerometer for Rock 'n' Scroll user
interface
- Support for power management research (selectable
processor core voltage and hooks to monitor internal power
consumption)
- Expansion via processor bus connector to daughter
cards
Full
specifications for Itsy V1.5 are available, including
hardware design specifications. The software used to date on
Itsy has been based on Linux 2.0.30. Compaq Research group's
Linux work on the iPAQ H3600 is updating the software base for
Itsy to current versions of Linux.
The
Compaq Personal Server is a research prototype developed
in Compaq's
Cambridge Research Laboratory in 1999, and was made
available to certain research groups external to Compaq.
- CPU - Digital (Intel) StrongARM SA110 processor (up to
233MHz)
- 32 MB of RAM and 32MB of flash
- Dual HOST PCMIA/Cardbus
- Serial and Dual OHCI USB
- 10 base T ethernet and Home PNA
- Daughter-card expansion
For more information, see
the Compaq CRL Web Page.
The Shark is a SA-110 based network appliance built by
Digital. While never a high volume product, a
significant number were built and are in the open source
community, generally running NetBSD, but they can now run
Linux as well. Some are being set up as a "Shark Pool" to ease
building iPAQ software.
- CPU - Digital SA110 (up to 233MHz)
- 4 to 64 megabytes SDRAM
- Up to 64 megabytes of ROM or FLASH memory
- Optional 100Mbyte ZIP drive
- 10BaseT ethernet
- SVGA display - 2MB video RAM
- VGA, S-video, or Composite output
- Optional LCD panel connector
- 44kHz monaural input audio, stereo output, 8 or 16
bit
- SoundBlaster/SoundBlaster-Pro emulation
- Microphone input, line-level, and headphone output
- PS-2 keyboard plus mouse port
- Standard serial ports, parallel port and game port
- Consumer IR remote control
More
information is available.
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