Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on the Linux ...

Foreword: This article is the sixth in a LinuxDevices.com series on Exploring Linux PDA Alternatives by Jerry Epplin that explores the history, status, alternative architectures, and future ...

Asia’s PDA markets have long been dominated by local players that have developed their own proprietary operating systems, with support for local languages serving as one of their strongest selling ...

(IDG) -- Over the past few years, advocates of the Linux operating system have mounted several failed offensives to try and conquer the desktop, but at the same time a less visible battle has been ...

(IDG) -- Linux is making inroads into the PDA market with a number of handheld companies announcing support for the open source operating system. Lineo, which supplies the operating environment for a ...

It looks like Motorola is making another non-RAZR, which in itself is exciting news. The E690 is a PDA/phone that runs on Linux, yes, Linux. It has standard PDA touchscreen and writing functions, as ...

Could this be the time for a hand-held computer running Linux as its operating system? Sharp Electronics Corp. certainly hopes so. Last week the firm introduced its Zaurus SL-5500 Personal Mobile Tool ...

So I'm familiar with linux (and to a lesser extent BSD) in the server role, havetoyeed with it as a desktop OS, but backed away, but now am looking at it from the PDA perspective.<BR><BR>I read. A lot ...

TOKYO--Sharp Electronics, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, said it will challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux ...

I'm in the market for a PDA. I know about the Yopy (one on ebay right now) and the Sharp Zaurus.<BR><BR>Any other PDA's natively running Linux?<BR><BR>In an attempt to keep costs reasonable, I don't ...

There was some recent good news for Linux PDA enthusiasts eager to get Sharp’s Zaurus into their corporate networks. Sharp recently announced a version of its Linux-based handheld aimed at the ...

I4U has plenty of pictures and a short commentary on the Sharp's new Zaurus SL-C3000, the first PDA with a 4GB hard drive (and which also happens to runs on Linux and come with a QWERTY keyboard).