btw, have you or anyone else on the list taken a look at how these apps run on Nokia 770, or the new N800...?
Nope, but if I had an N800 available to me I'm sure it'd be a quick port target.
The platform is similar enough ..
GNU/Linux/Debian/Gnome based, somewhat more powerful ARM cpu, more RAM.
Try not to discount the GP2X' second ARM core, which is quite a fun hack, and also remember that the GP2X' Linux firmware is far less bloated than that of Nokia (almost painfully so), in order to provide a much lighter, smaller, faster footprint for game developers ..
Not to discount the Nokia devices, nor any of the thousands of ARM-based/Linux-compatible handheld, portable computing systems, currently flooding the market... the point is, the GP2X is available, cheap (circa $150), light, battery-powered, and already building up a huge suite of fun applications worth the effort to get involved in .. and I think the GP2X is far more hackable than Nokia would be comfortable people doing with the N770/N800 (i.e. there are already full firmware replacements out there for the GP2X, including quite a few non-Linux ones..)
Some hacking is needed as well to get USB host mode working
All thats needed with the GP2X is a cable/docking station, and these are easy to obtain. Host mode works like you'd expect it to work on a Linux-based system ..
(the device can't supply power to slave USB devs)... but you do have wifi, bt2.0, a nice 4.1" screen running X, sd/mmc slot, ...
TV Output?
Not as cheap as gp2x is though...
Definitely not. I've got 3 GP2X's for the price I would've had to pay for a single N800 .. Still, exciting times for all Linux/ARM hackers, and even more exciting times for those of us pressing such systems into audio processing uses ..
{3 GP2X's running g_midi/g_audio [total integration] == cheap and effective sub-effects processors for the DAW..}
-- ; Jay Vaughan
