On Monday, September 24, Empower Technologies will begin selling a $99 PDA which is a Palm III clone from a hardware perspective, but runs Empower's Linux DA operating system instead of Palm OS. This LinuxDevices.com “device profile” provides details about the device (and a photo) . . .

“The PowerPlay III PDA is manufactured in Taiwan and sold online by Empower Technologies, a vendor of Embedded Linux for intelligent appliances. The device is claimed to be Palm IIIxe compatible, from a hardware perspective. But unlike Palm's PDAs, the PowerPlay III runs Empower Technologies' Linux DA O/S implementation of Embedded Linux for the Dragonball processor . . .”

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