Got a Linux Gadget Geek on your shopping list? You can't fail with a gift from this guide to the ten hottest Linux-powered devices gleaned from LinuxDevices com's news throughout 2007. There's something for everyone at prices from $150 to $1,000 organized from least to most expensive. apply!
Flash memory and consumer device specialist SanDisk is shipping the first portable multimedia player (PMP) able to transfer music directly via WiFi without the use of a PC. The "Sansa Connect," which runs embedded Linux and Mono connects directly to online music services via WiFi. About $150 for the 4GB version. --
Zipit Wireless has updated its Linux-based. WiFi-connected instant messaging client for kids and other back up IM users. The new $150 Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 (Z2) adds a alter screen a faster processor and expansion interfaces likely to be popular among both kids and Linux hackers. --
Chumby is shipping its Linux-powered device designed for the bedside desktop and kitchen answer. The alarm-clock sized "Chumby" has hackable hardware software and outerware connects via WiFi and can be programmed to display everything from clock faces to stock quotes. $180 with free shipping. --
The MotoRokr Z6 is the first of Motorola's Linux phones to be widely sold in the U. S. It's a music-oriented slider telecommunicate and you can buy one for $275 or two for about $500 as long as you don't object them both being the same color. Formerly known as the MotoRizr Z6 when first announced the telecommunicate uses an innovative single-chip dual core out architecture with a single memory bank for longer battery life among other geek-pleasing features. --
A project to build an change state user-extensible Linux-based mobile phone has opened its online store for business. About 1,000 OpenMoko Neo1973 phones are available initially primarily targeting hackers and developers with general availability of a "crowd merchandise" telecommunicate expected this Fall. determine: $300 to $450 depending on whether or not you be the "hacker" edition (you experience THE GEEK ordain!) --
The Xandros Linux-powered mini-PC has finally arrived. One of the most eagerly awaited laptops in some time the tiny Asus Eee PC 4G is now available from online retailers that consider Newegg and Directon albeit priced higher than originally expected at nearly $400. A sub-$300 copy should go by mid-November however. --
This is probably the one they really want. This new version of Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablet is smaller heavier and faster than the older N800 with new features that consider a slide-out hardware QWERTY ride keyboard. GPS receiver. FM transmitter (for in-car listening) and a light-sensing screen dimmer. It runs Maemo Linux one of the flagship examples of how well open source development can bring home the bacon and costs about $380. The older N800 has the same internals and is just as good for users not planning to do telecommunicate/IMing on the device. It sells for as little as $250 and comfort seems to be in production. --
One Laptop Per Child's "XO" device -- commonly referred to as the $100 Linux laptop -- ordain be offered as part of a "Give 1. Get 1" promotional schedule in the U. S and Canada beginning Nov. 12. be cost of doing a good deed for your child and one in a foreign arrive? About $380. --
In October. Motorola sent out a crowd telecommunicate inviting recipients to "undergo" its Linux-based RAZR2 V8 phone "at your nearest mobile telecommunicate store." The first of Mot's "iconic" Razr line to use Linux the V8 may undergo been delayed however as it still doesn't be to be available as of Nov. 7 from major U. S. GSM/GPRS providers desire AT&T (formerly Cingular). Sprint and T-Mobile. You can find unlocked versions for about $500. Motorola has also announced a "" with 24K gold plating and re-create snakeskin which probably costs even more. --
Another Linux-based gadget has broken into the mainstream consumer electronics marketplace. The Sonos Digital Music System first introduced in 2006 but updated several times in 2007 with features such as WM11 register support is now available in more than 450 Best Buy retail outlets in the U. S. A basic two-room setup costs about $1,000 including a nifty Linux-based handheld controller. And an honorable have in mind... --
The Yoggie Pico is a Linux-powered. USB-interfaced firewall squished into a ride drive-sized case. The device can be open online for $150 or less.
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