Hotsolder - Electronics & Other Geeky Pursuits: The $200 Linux Handheld You've Never Heard Of

I don't know how I've missed these before. A Korean company makes a little handheld "video game" called the GP2X. It runs Linux on a 200MHz ARM processor (it actually has 2 ARM processors, but one isn't running Linux). From WikiPedia:

Chipset: Magic Eyes MMSP2 MP2520F System-on-a-Chip
CPU: 200MHz ARM920T host, 200MHz ARM940T
NAND Flash ROM: 64 MB
RAM: SDRAM 64 MB
Operating System: Linux-based OS
Storage: SD Card
Connection to PC: USB 2.0 High Speed
USB Host: USB 1.1
Power: 2 × AA or via AC adapter
Display: 320×240 3.5 inch, 260,000 color TFT LCD
TV output
Physical size: 143.6 mm wide, 82.9 mm high, 27 mm (excl. joystick approx.) / 34 mm deep
Weight: 161 g (without battery)

The price? Well under $200!

There's plenty of inexpensive expansion options and you can get an entire development environment for it... there's plenty of 3rd party applications.

Labels: gadgets, geek, linux