01-16-2003, 07:13 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Secure Linux PDA by IBM and CDL
"An innovative PDA created by IBM and Consumer Direct Link promises to reduce the risk of unauthorized entry into the offices, facilities, manufacturing sites or warehouses of businesses and government agencies.
The Paron MPC converged device combines the functions of a Linux-based PDA and mobile phone, with the notable additions of a biometric fingerprint-recognition application and security-oriented hardware/software architecture, in addition to Bluetooth wireless capability."
I did a quick Google search and found the following unit on CDL's website.
Looks like a pretty typical ARM/Linux-based PDA, except for that hardcore-looking biometric scanner and the combination of both GSM/GPRS and Bluetooth (which no one else has to date, if I'm not mistaken). The device is slated to cost $500.
Interestingly, this makes me believe that, despite recent predictions of convergence between PDAs and cell phones (or the supplanting of PDA's with smarter cell phones) in the consumer market, PDAs in their existing form factor will still exist in the future for many business and governmental applications. PDAs as handheld computers have a tremendous value proposition.
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01-16-2003, 08:16 PM
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01-16-2003, 09:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally Posted by heov
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4905
Brad posted on this 2 months ago if anyone is interested in more discussion...
Either it's really big or the screen is really small... to boxy and "ugly" for me...
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hmm i have the same felling with you !
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01-16-2003, 09:04 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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It looks like they even made the hardware buttons secure by putting random shapes on them that don't mean anything to a non-user.
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01-16-2003, 09:21 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
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It looks familiar...
I think i have seen this device about a year back somewhere on www.linuxdevices.com. I could be wrong however.
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01-16-2003, 09:45 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Oops  ops: I usually do a search for duplicates, but evidently I missed one.
--janak
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01-16-2003, 11:07 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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And $500 for a 16MB RAM device, 206Mhz proc? A little expensive, uh?
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01-16-2003, 11:26 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
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That finger print scanner looks really similar to one a friend of mine developed under a company called Veridicom. They went under but sold the technology to several OEM's and that really looks like their chip design...
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01-17-2003, 12:57 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by djtipmothee
It looks like they even made the hardware buttons secure by putting random shapes on them that don't mean anything to a non-user.
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Looks like the symbols on a playstation controler :lol:
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01-17-2003, 03:04 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Kirk Stephens
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Originally Posted by djtipmothee
It looks like they even made the hardware buttons secure by putting random shapes on them that don't mean anything to a non-user.
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Looks like the symbols on a playstation controler :lol: |
that's exactly what came to my mind too 
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