Dear all,
first of all thank you very much and sorry for the long time to prepare an answer.
I have carefully studied the poll and your comments and come to the following conclusions:
There is a clear (winning) quote for a Linux based Smartphone: 45%
And a second winner is interestingly a low priced Linux PDA: 31%
In total there have been 51 votes out of 6800 members of this forum (136 pages with 50 members each) which is below 1%.
I find there are essentially three groups ("market segments"):
Smartphone* basically a P910/Nokia 9300/Treo like device but with (open access) Linux
* if possible with WiFi and/or Bluetooth integrated
* CF is not required (size)
* but SDIO and USB (host)
* display can be smaller than a PDA (Zaurus) something between 2.5 and 3 inch
* minimum is QVGA (320x240) resolution
* processor speed is not of highest importance (300MHz seen as sufficient)
* localized keyboard
* external camera (removeable)
* Qtopia Smartphone Edition
Micro Laptop* basically want something substantially better than a C3000 with increased power (memory, harddisk size, processor speed)
* integrated WiFi or Bluetooth
* better battery life
* localized keyboard
* Linux 2.6 based
Low End PDA* basically a new SL-A300- as small and light as possible
* could be a C1000 without keypad and no CF slot
* but should have SDIO, USB host
* Bluetooth/WiFi integrated would be nice
* VGA display
* no keypad, portrait mode only
* US $175 if possible (which I doubt...)
There have been some comments on the software but my impression was that Qtopia as the initial system is ok if all the required sources are available to create custom ROMs.
A great idea IMHO is to use the Penguin as the Brand/Logo and not the ZUG since I think the Tux logo can be used freely by everybody.
So, what are the next steps?
I intend to contact the manufacturer of these devices with these results and let's see what they think about such a project.
With many thanks to all contributors,
Nikolaus Schaller
The Handheld-Linux Shop
http://www.handheld-linux.com