John Ankcorn <ankcorn@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
(2002/05/09 12:15:37)
>As you mentioned, the 720 is a unique
>and quite useful mobile platform for applications with a large
>amount of text input and output.
An iPAQ compatible ( binary compatible with ipaq , 640 by 240 TFT reflective i.e ipaq-type screen ) in exactly the same casing and with exactly (!) the same keyboard and a 412 MHz XScale + 128 MByte/MOctet RAM , hardware accellerated FPE and JVM will be an absolute killer ...
>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.
OTB multi-OS support could blow all competitors out of the water
>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.
>
The main gripe about the 7** is its binary incompatibility with the iPaq , wich is rapidly developing into the default handheld reference platform
An iPaq - compatible HPC-Pro -especially with out of the box multi-OS support in the 7** form factor could take the enterprise market by storm and with the XScale and a self-hosted development environment could consolidate the PocketPC as the mobile platform of choice
Finally the time has come for true stand-alone handheld devices , i.e devices that can be used as one's main computer in much the same way as a desktop or laptop today
k
Received on Sun May 12 19:23:44 2002
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