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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Don Walker wrote:

> Still, this begs some questions...  We have been very focused on a PDA
> platform.  We have the opportunity here to look at the metaphor we are
> working towards and question it a little.  A modular system perhaps
> interconnected by bluetooth or 802.11b might be an interesting concept.
> There is nothing to say that we have to stick to the Palm inspired form
> and function we are used to.

To be more specific, what I am looking for, is a computer:
1. that I can afford ($100-$300) 
2. carry in my pocket. 
3. running off batteries with at least a 12 hour run time and 7 day
standby time. 
4. designed to be used handheld
5. can network.
6. can support Wireless networking

> 
> Obviously at this stage there is nothing to stop us from turning the CPU
> board into whatever we want, but before we dump some cash into a case we
> might want to kick around some alternative ideas.
>

What do you have in mind?

I owuld point out, that the cheapest hardware solution to the PDA is a
deditcated PDA circut board with the CPU on board.  It was decided (and I
concur) that it would be a good approach to put the core on a seperate
board.

To be cost effective, this board shoudl have nothing on it that will not
be used in it's projected environments.  The core functionality that I
have heard discussed so far, is just CPU/RAM/Flash.

I am open to discussing other functionality.

The SoDIMM formfactor is 2.6in wide, the length we can play with, but if
we want to fit in the Vr3 footprint it is limited I would think to 2 -
2.25 in.

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