[Mx7community-general] MX7 news...

[Cam <ca...@me...>]

Hi All

> I'll be sure to post here when I have some good news...

I just heard from Softield that they have decided to produce what was 
going to be the MX7 exclusively for a single brand name customer. Early 
next year we might find out who is going to release that new small form 
factor PDA, whether it will still run linux, and exactly what features 
it has (probably more features or it won't stand a chance in the current 
market).

It's a shame but I get the impression that Softfield did not have the 
resources to fund a large (ie. efficient) production run and all the 
support and development required.

In the meantime has anyone got any suggestions for a small, low cost 
linux PDA? I think some Pocket PC machines can be converted but I don't 
really know which ones are good value etc. There are some Palm based 
machines (like the Sony Clie TJ25 or 35 for example, very cheap) which 
are close to the MX7 spec - but it might be hard to get linux to run on 
them...

Regards,

-Cam