Yeah. Hence why I'm buying one.
Alot of the inspiration for the PPZ's internal phone systems and configuration is coming from the XDAE/Jasjar/Q9000/MDA-Pro/Universal (Yep, still the same phone.) It's the main competition with the PPZ because of the rapidly maturing OpenEmbedded port. Add to that the pricetag and you see why we want to prove to the big Corps that we can do alot better.
Things the PPZ has and the Universal doesn't?
Accelerometer, Phone-Screen, 802.11G, 3D Acceleration, Video-Out, ATA66, DDR, 512MB (It has 64) memory, a thumbprint scanner (That came from the iPaq), Scrollwheel (Clie/Palm), Trackball (Sparkfun), Twin SD sockets, the Under-Consideration Torch, a GPG-Signed secure bootloader to prevent reflashing (Thanks DB!), Shoulder-Buttons, 5.1-Surround Sound, SPDIF, and the GSM trace to locate the device in case of theft.
It's not a design that'll make anyone money to sell, because we're not manufacturing large enough volumes of them, and we're selling only parts to avoid the need to have it tested by the various goverment sales tests.
But it will show the manufacturing corporations such as HTC, HP, Sharp and Dell. . . That they don't have hidden trade-secrets that prevent us from doing it ourselves, and if they want to keep their customers from DIY, they should buck up their ideas about the limited feature-set concept.
