 Is Pp Project Dead? |
OESF Portables Forum > Everything Else > Archived Forums > Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums > PocketPenguin  |
  Jan 30 2008, 01:29 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Group: Admin Posts: 3,492 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149  |
given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead?
|
 |
 
|
|
Feb 13 2008, 02:54 PM
Post
#2
|
|
|
Group: Admin Posts: 3,492 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
 I guess the lack of a response says it all. There's lots of good information in this forum - ideas etc, so I think it should be kept, but frozen? |
|
|
|
|
Feb 13 2008, 07:13 PM
Post
#3
|
|
 Group: Members Posts: 690 Joined: 4-June 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 3,570 |
QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 30 2008, 12:29 PM)  given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead? Too bad it (the nokia) has a crap ui. That was the reason I got rid of it. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 14 2008, 01:28 PM
Post
#4
|
|
|
Group: Admin Posts: 3,492 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
QUOTE(BarryW @ Feb 14 2008, 03:13 AM) Too bad it (the nokia) has a crap ui. That was the reason I got rid of it. I wouldn't say the tablet interface is crap, it's quirky IMHO (see this interesting analysis and comparison with the newton: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/). But that doesn't matter, you can build your own distro, from scratch, use Nokias or Angstrom as a base, and use any UI you want (E17, GPE, QT - the latter exists) anyway, I didn't mean the n800 OS & UI, I meant the hardware. Given that PP turned out to be vapourware and a wishlist, the 810 fulfils most of it, just needs a mini keyboard (logitech dinovo mini) and use bluetooth to external 3G or GPRS or EDGE phone! The PP would have needed a huge amount of effort to make it useful when the Nokia has a working kernel, drivers for hardware and X11! |
|
|
|
|
Mar 5 2008, 06:25 AM
Post
#5
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 5-March 08 Member No.: 21,466 |
i think is not dead, just need a little time.
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 5 2008, 10:13 AM
Post
#6
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 1-February 04 Member No.: 1,647 |
The N8x0 Nokias even run the full monty KDE...
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 5 2008, 01:23 PM
Post
#7
|
|
 Group: Members Posts: 2,808 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 30 2008, 12:29 PM) given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead?  ATM my Zaurii have everything this zaurus user could want
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 5 2008, 01:38 PM
Post
#8
|
|
|
Group: Admin Posts: 3,492 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
QUOTE(WilliamHey @ Mar 5 2008, 02:25 PM) i think is not dead, just need a little time. maybe the PP is just resting, pining for the fjords... lovely plumage, the pocketpenguin 
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 10 2008, 08:43 AM
Post
#9
|
|
 Group: Members Posts: 296 Joined: 27-October 03 From: Greenfield, NH Member No.: 781 |
- Perhaps erosion of the Antarctic ice has had a negative impact on the smaller (pocketable) Penguins?
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 14 2008, 05:38 AM
Post
#10
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 191 Joined: 28-August 05 From: Leeds, England Member No.: 7,969 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 14 2008, 06:15 AM
Post
#11
|
|
 Group: Members Posts: 155 Joined: 10-December 06 From: Croatia Member No.: 13,288 |
Openpandora is great hardware wise but, goddamn that thing is UGLY!
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 21 2008, 04:56 PM
Post
#12
|
|
|
Group: Admin Posts: 3,492 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
I think owning a pandora will definitely be a fashion statement, as in "I don't care about fashion, form follows function and ugliness is fine".
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 22 2008, 04:40 AM
Post
#13
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 155 Joined: 10-December 06 From: Croatia Member No.: 13,288 |
It's not ugly if you look at it from the handheld gaming perspective. But since everybody is waiting for the next Zaurus, Pandora is the closest thing to it hardware wise. Actually, it's exactly what we want in a new Zaurus - Updated hardware. Nothing else. And it's still ugly if i look at it as my next Zaurus.
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 24 2008, 01:26 PM
Post
#14
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 19-July 06 Member No.: 10,462 |
QUOTE(speculatrix @ Mar 5 2008, 04:38 PM) QUOTE(WilliamHey @ Mar 5 2008, 02:25 PM) i think is not dead, just need a little time. maybe the PP is just resting, pining for the fjords... lovely plumage, the pocketpenguin I think blue would be a good color.. Just look at that plumage :-) And no, I don't have the feet nailed to the stand. |
|
|
|
|
May 3 2008, 12:41 AM
Post
#15
|
|
|
Group: Members Posts: 471 Joined: 21-May 06 Member No.: 9,928 |
Well who has one of the ~100 developer devices ?
What's it like ? |
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 19th April 2018 - 09:50 AM |