[jornada] Re: Jornada future

Greg,

Thanks for your help and support.

Things have indeed been quite unsettled here, some unpleasant
events and some promising ones....

From what little I understand, although engineering is apparently
ceasing, the Jornada line will still be manufactured
as long as there is demand.
As you mentioned, the 720 is a unique
and quite useful mobile platform for applications with a large
amount of text input and output. The 568 is also good for its
low cost, good screen and integrated CF slot.
I hope that demand will continue for these devices for some time.

For linux support, most of the work on the 720 is done (including
power management!!) and I will be putting it into the handhelds.org
CVS tree early next week. I have made quite a bit of progress
on Linux for the 56x series (in particular, the 568) this week and
hope to have it working at the same level and in handhelds.org CVS
in a couple of weeks.

I hope to keep support for these two products up to date as new
kernels come out as long as the machines are available and there is
demand.

Supply of the flash cards for the 720 remains a severe problem.
We don't have any real facilities for manufacturing them at the
research labs and there is no supply available in the
manufacturing center in Singapore.
We can make the schematics available freely to anyone wishing to
manufacture them and I continue to hope that someone will show
interest.

On a more promising note, HP will be joining with Compaq, which has
been both more aggressive and successful in bringing out a range
of mobile client platforms. I am strongly looking forward to
the increased amount of energy that we can apply together to bring
out new applications, allowing people to integrate mobile
computing devices more smoothly into their daily lives.

Thanks!
jca

Greg Berenfield wrote:
>
> I heard today (cnn) that jornadas are not surviving the merger...
>
> Just hoping you can offer any insights into what may happen with
> joranada support, hpc's in the future(?) from HPaq?
>
> To me it seems like the j720 is the last of the lightweight low-powered
> hpc's to come out (sigh).
>
Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 00:15:38 EDT