Chinese firm to produce first Linux UMPC
The Beijing Peace East Development company is set to introduce the H9, a UMPC-like device running Linux. The H9 is an interesting device as the processor is an Intel PXA270 running at 520 MHz, a processor normally found in Windows Mobile devices. The H9 will ship with a lot of productivity and multimedia applications plus you have that huge Linux open source movement to keep your H9 loaded with goodies. No word on pricing yet.
(via pocketables)
And so far I've been the only person to point out they've ripped off the UI of the 770! Hahahahaha!
Posted by: Mike Cane | February 06, 2007 at 07:37 AM
Not ripped off.....remember, alot of the Nokia 770 and N800 is open source. In fact, the few things that are not are the flash plugin and opera itself. There's also a few device drivers for the DSP on board the 770 and N800 that have proprietary software itself.
This IS Maemo Linux. That is the TRUE power of open source.
Posted by: gork | February 06, 2007 at 09:02 AM
Is it indeed Maemo? I went to the spec page and all it says is Linux.
http://www.made-in-china.com/china-products/productviewrqZJdFDbSnWO/UMPC.html
Posted by: Mike Cane | February 06, 2007 at 09:21 AM
*scratches head*
Even the experts are confused:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/printthread.php?t=4543
*shrugs*
Posted by: Mike Cane | February 06, 2007 at 09:27 AM
Well, one person says its Maemo.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4545
Low-cred in my book.
Posted by: Mike Cane | February 06, 2007 at 10:18 AM
Of course while this may be the first UMPC class device it's certainly not the first high end linux portable, there are the nokias as mentioned and the Zaurus clamshell units which, with the help of pdaXrom, can run firefox, Abiword and all manner of other desktop linux apps.
This kind of thing looks far more useful to me than a UMPC type device or a tablet interface like maemo, unfortunately they clamshell models are hard to come by in the west.
since everyone loves screenshots here are some i've harvested
http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/notes/xarchiver.jpg
http://www.gefechtsdienst.de/uman/img/screens/ss20060105.jpg
http://pumb.rinnovative.com/img/zaurus_pdaxrom_firefox.jpg
Posted by: JustSomeReader | February 07, 2007 at 08:37 AM
PepperPad3 is first linux umpc to my knowledge.
Posted by: yodaddy | February 07, 2007 at 03:57 PM