When will we see Open Source Software & Hardware hand-held? Given the new hardware coming out
The Beagle-Bone Board $89.00 Highlights: * Board size: 3.4" x 2.1" * Single cable development environment with built-in FTDI-based serial/JTAG and on-board hub to give the same cable simultaneous access to a USB device port on the target processor * On-chip Ethernet, not off of USB * 256MB of DDR2 * 700-MHz super-scalar ARM Cortex™-A8 * 2GB microSD card with the Angstrom Distribution with node.js<http://nodejs.org/#about>and Cloud9 IDE <http://c9.io/> * Industry standard 3.3V I/Os on the expansion headers http://beagleboard.org/bone https://www.adafruit.com/products/513 Screen: Microtouch - AVR development board with 2.8" TFT Touch Screen $69.00 https://www.adafruit.com/products/330 Seems to me someone could manufacture a touch screen hand-held for $250 and still make a profit ( not much ) Does anyone know of such a "all integrated" device that one can install FOSS on and get something what looks like a Apple "iPod Toch"? I don't count the Pandora <http://openpandora.org/> since it's has not shipped ( was suppose to many years ago ) and when it does it will be $520 US If not it seems just around the corner! or a project idea? -- /** ** Joe Apuzzo ** Call Sign: KD2AKU ** PGP/GPG: pub key ID BB5C7 **/
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