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Huh??? Ogg is supported just fine! With or without firmware upgrade.

Huh??? Ogg is supported just fine! With or without firmware upgrade.

I hope you are right about that, but I didn't see ogg in any of the literature or technical specs. Where is this listed?

EDIT: Okay. Next time I'll be sure to RTFA before I open my mouth (keyboard)! Sorry - It's right there in the article - duh!!

Edited 2005-11-14 19:28

Apart from the minor niggles the author mentions there is no ogg support. Think i`ll still go for the GP2X!

I'm wondering why this post had a score of -2 (I had to adjust the settings to view it, then I voted it back up).

You people do realize the word "niggles" is not a "bad word", don't you?

The screen is not as good as my HP rx3115 PDA. But it's brighter than the Zaurus SL-5500's (all QVGA).

Geeks.com supports the device for 1 year, if something goes wrong, not Pontis.

...requires Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP

According to the product description on the Pontis website, Linux is one of the supported operating systems. You can check it out here:

http://www.pontis.de/site_e/produkte/pl_2020_e.htm and then click on the 'technical specifications'.

I'm assuming you'll just mount it like an external hard drive, and you probably won't get to use the shrink wrapped software that comes with it.

I think it uses special microcontrollers, not ARM. The uCLinux in particular is known to support those.

isn't ARM a special Microcontroller? It's used in all the ipods and in most mobile phones, and pdas. Why not here? I suspect it is a System on Chip from some guys like Portal Player, or maybe an asic from Broadcom or something that has an ARM core... o'well.

No. Especially because the source code doesn't seem easy to find.

qualify that with, "at this writing", or, "today", and it might be valid.

Well, I asked for the source code and Pontis does not have it. They just used whatever iUbi gave them as binaries. And the iUbi/Pontis devices are out for more than a year. If iUbi wanted to post their changes/source-code they would have done so, don't you think?

Give it time you'll probably see a replacement os project as soon as a few are disassembled, the hardware looks much too nice not to, probably only a cross compile and a few driver changes away.

The full hardware specs are not available. You can't port anything to it in the current form. The only solution is for iUbi to post the source code so people can start updating it.

No, only QVGA recording is supported, which is what you want for PDAs and for future phones. If you need bigger resolutions you need to get an Archos device instead (the Neuros 442 that I reviewed last week also does HVGA 640x240, but this res is not supported well by most media players and it makes the video look stretched). So, if you truly need big resolutions, either get a Neuros Recorder II (comes out in a few weeks, $150) or an Archos device ($350+).

Pictures are scaled down to fit on the QVGA resolution and they don't look blury. There is a 4x zoom available too. They load pretty fast.

no, no one tried that. I suggest you don't destroy the warranty of your order.

If you do decide to destroy the warranty and do something like this. The IUBI site has a download for the complete CD that comes with the PMP2020. It includes a system resore utility that will format and reinstall everything from scratch. If you do it.. let us know how it works!

Manual.

sorry, iubi channel, not entertainment...

(this is from the original post-er of HD upgrade...)

No...I haven't tried it yet. These devices take the 1.8" hard drive, not the standard notbook drive of 9.5mm height. Higher capacity brand new 1.8" drives from Toshiba are in the range $100-160. I'll start looking for one on ebay...

TTFN