Chris Halsall, writing at O'Reilly Network, provides a thorough, technically-oriented, well written review of the G.Mate YOPY Linux PDA. Halsall writes . . .

“Early 2000 . . . rumors first appeared about the G.Mate YOPY: a powerful, color handheld device to be delivered with Linux straight out of the box — no overwriting WinCE on this unit. First shown in February 2000 at the Hannover Expo (CeBIT) in Germany, it was hoped the product would be available for March of that year.”

” . . . The specs were enough to drive geeks wild: 206-MHz StrongARM processor, 240 x 320 16-bit color display, 32 Mbytes of RAM, CDMA Compact Flash II expansion — very sweet stuff . . .”

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