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by **paul cook** » Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:30:17

<http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1559981>

Quote:>The new combination PDA-phone handset supports Microsoft's Windows CE
>.NET operating system, the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 software, and the
>Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition software, as
>well as multiple microprocessors such as Intel's (Quote, Company Info)
>newest chip, the PXA250 XScale running at 400MHz as well as Intel's
>SA-1110 and Hitachi's SH3/SH4 microprocessors. The handset also
>supports Linux operating systems.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Nice fact to know :)

Quote:>The MicroPDA also features GSM/GPRS tri-band communications, a four-inch
>color TFT VGA display (touch screen LCD with backlight), 64Mb SDRAM, 32
>Mb Intel Strata Flash, Bluetooth and IrDA communication support, USB
>client/host controller, Multimedia Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD)
>support, compact Flash, Ethernet and RS232 serial support, SIM card
>support, internal speaker, microphone with headset detection and a real
>time clock.

yummee yummee...

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by **Bone** » Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:28:44

><http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1559981>

[snip]

Yeah, but can you actually make a phone call with it? A friend of mine has a
Motorola that takes -- now this is no exaggeration -- two minutes to "boot"
up before he can make a call. Worthless.

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by **The Ghost In The Machin** » Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:09:09

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bones

wrote
on Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:28:44 GMT

>><http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1559981>

> [snip]

> Yeah, but can you actually make a phone call with it? A friend of mine has a
> Motorola that takes -- now this is no exaggeration -- two minutes to "boot"
> up before he can make a call. Worthless.

Great; just the thing for someone dying of coronary thrombosis. :-/

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by **Greg Copelan** » Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:28:01

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bones

> wrote
> on Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:28:44 GMT

> >><http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1559981>

> > [snip]

> > Yeah, but can you actually make a phone call with it? A friend of mine has a
> > Motorola that takes -- now this is no exaggeration -- two minutes to "boot"
> > up before he can make a call. Worthless.

> Great; just the thing for someone dying of coronary thrombosis. :-/

While the boot up time is well into the category of absurd, nonetheless,
in theory you're phone should be turned on most of the time anyways. After
all, surely a phone with that many capabilities will have ring-mute, etc...
Which means, there generally isn't a reason to turn the phone off.

Greg

by **The Ghost In The Machin** » Thu, 02 Jan 2003 04:54:15

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Greg Copeland

wrote
on 27 Dec 2002 09:28:01 -0600

>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bones

>> wrote
>> on Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:28:44 GMT

>> >><http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1559981>

>> > [snip]

>> > Yeah, but can you actually make a phone call with it?
>> > A friend of mine has a Motorola that takes -- now this
>> > is no exaggeration -- two minutes to "boot" up before
>> > he can make a call. Worthless.

>> Great; just the thing for someone dying of coronary thrombosis. :-/

> While the boot up time is well into the category of
> absurd, nonetheless, in theory you're phone should be
> turned on most of the time anyways. After all, surely
> a phone with that many capabilities will have ring-mute,
> etc... Which means, there generally isn't a reason to
> turn the phone off.

Hmm...and what was the max uptime for Windows CE, again? :-)

Quote:
> Greg

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Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...

Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...

Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...

Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...

Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...

Microsoft SmartPhone will also support Linux...