Re: [jornada] Re: Jornada future

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:15:37PM -0700, John Ankcorn wrote:
>
> 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
>

John,

Many thanks for all the hard work and support!

Hopefully the best of the joranada hpc's will carry on in HPQ's
handhelds division. The current technology and expertise would enable a
true mobile powerhouse for those who want to have a full computer in
their pocket! Having seen recent releases from Sony in this
vein, the j720 to me still seems closer to this vision.

Schematics on the flash cards would be great! Someone may want to
pursue this and offer (sell) these to interested users.

I'll certainly be looking out for your cvs checkins :)

Best Regards,
Greg

>
>
> 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).
> >
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Received on Thu May 09 21:08:00 2002