[Tfug] Wireless tablet?

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Tom,

--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Tom Rini <trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> -0700, Zack Williams wrote:

> > Check out Nokia's N770, 800 or 810 products.  Pretty much just what you
> > want, it a bit underpowered.
> 
> Depends on just how much hacking / replacing you want to
> do, on those platforms.  Wholesale replacement of Nokia's
> distribution with another
> requires bringing in a few packages from Nokia and
> binary-only modules for wifi (and bluetooth?).  It's all possible 
> and the 'Mamona'
> OpenEmbedded-based distribution has done it, it's just not
> always pretty.

Hence the appeal of the "X terminal-like" approach.  Just
enough firmware running to make the appliance functional.
It's actual *functionality* is then left to something
"outside" the box.