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When you gotta have Turbo, and you gotta have Linux...
comment: 8 | Wednesday, November 22 (2006) 05:05PM | Posted by Lone
...you get the TurboLinux Wizpy, a Japanese digital audio player running some sort of Linux-based operating system.

Most of the typical features are here, including MP3, WMA, OGG, and AAC playback, FM radio, voice recorder, photo viewer (JPEG), and video playback (DivX). Capacity is listed at 4 GB's, and the Wizpy is reasonably small at 84 mm × 42 mm × 12.2 mm.

Included on the Wizpy are portable versions of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Skype, meaning you can plug the player into a PC and run the software from its flash memory. Nothing you can't do with a plain old flashdrive, but still sort of cool. Plus, this thing runs Linux. Linux, man.



Product Page via GenerationMP3
Additional pics at PC Watch via Gizmodo

Thanks to all who submitted this
Comments

enCORe_XTG

Comments: 317
Nov 22 (2006) 07:45PM  

what it can I do with this turbolinux ?

----Product pages via googletranslator----
Main function
* As a personal computer <-- this is too much
- Available such as Web, Mail and Office software
* As a media player
- Music playback: (OGG, MP3 and AAC file reproducible)
- Audio sound recording: As a MP3 file (making use of the internal organs microphone sound recording possibility)
- FM radio: (Listening the FM radio is possible)
- Still picture indication: (JPEG file indication possibility preview functional loading)
- Animated picture playback: (DivX file reproducible)
- Text indication: (Text viewer functional loading)

Main Feature
Your own sufficient OS of palm size
- PC which is connected, simply in your own private PC environment
- Turbo Linux offers utilization of the various network services which possibility! How?
* As a single unit multimedia player, at the time of personal computer connection, in your own private personal computer
  It is possible to change.
* Without installing the special software to the personal computer, in your own sufficient personal computer!
* You can enjoy Internet and the mail with your own private environment.
* It can make simple renewal of the software making use of network.
* By the fact that you connect to Internet, be able to utilize various network services,
  It is possible to enjoy.

[Linky]
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..uhuh and uhuh..
It maybe loads of multifunction OS like WinCe, we dont know will this works <_<.
[ edited Nov 22 (2006) 07:45PM ]




Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
Nov 23 (2006) 01:04AM  

^ Haha, that PC part is hilarious. lol




ralphb

Comments: 154
Nov 23 (2006) 02:26AM  

How cool would it be to run up a bash shell on this thing and enter commands via morse code? Geek cool, maybe. Street cool, seriously not.

But seriously, the possibility of running a PC from the software on this thing - not running this thing as a PC - is kinda cute.

As The Reg put it:
However, the 60g, 8.4 x 4.2 x 1.2cm device also has a suitably tailored version of Linux on board ready to run browser, email and office software. Just plug it into a PC's USB port, restart the host machine and it'll boot up into the open source operating system so you can surf and work and be sure nothing's being recorded on the hard disk.

[ edited Nov 24 (2006) 04:19AM ]




kadajawi

Comments: 51
Nov 23 (2006) 06:15AM  

Well, it looks pretty nice (except in pink), though having Linux on it is pretty much a waste of space. Is its own OS Linux too? That would be cool again. Now if it would have WLAN and some sort of mobile Firefox and Thunderbird on it... + gaim...




Steve

Comments: 1197
Nov 23 (2006) 08:46AM  

Damnit why couldn't the Tekstor Vibez look like that?




dap_pad

Comments: 519
Nov 23 (2006) 10:12AM  

Wow... this isn't really a new thing... many DAPs use Linux based OSes... namely the A2... and portable apps... not new... in fact i'm using Portable Firefox right now...




Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
Nov 23 (2006) 08:39PM  

99.99% of the Korean pmps have this kind of OS. Although Windows CE is the most popular OS on Korean pmps, there are linux ones out there.






Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
Nov 23 (2006) 08:51PM  

that comment makes no sense what so ever design




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