How Cool would an eLap have been?

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz ... =article&id=142&Itemid=18

(Yeah you need flash, else, download the mpeg here http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/media/video/eLAP_AmigaOS.mpg)

@Mikey_C

We had a stock workbench running on the eLAP, and that was not really useful, as you could see in the video. An AmigaOS on PDA's would have looked a bit different than normal AmigaOS...

Although, we we had WBsteriod running on it, a 68k program.

But yeah, it's too bad they went out of production.

@Rogue

Do you have any spare prototypes lying around? I'd love to have one

@xeron

Unfortunately not... I would love one tii

@Mikey_C

Cool, shame nothing came of it. Remember a screengrab of Workbench on a PDA appearing around that time, although many assumed it was a mockup rather than reality then.

@Daniel

We did do a mock-up user interface for a supposed AmigaOS on the PDA. Mock-up in the sense that it was running on an AmigaOne rather than the PDA - it was easier to make a screenshot ;)

@Daniel

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Post #20

That's about as much as was publically posted.

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@Mikey_C

Yeah, it would have been pretty cool. It's a real shame that the eLap never made it past the prototype stage, although it would have taken a lot of work to adapt the Amiga OS GUI for a tiny screen. To be worth it today, it would have to be a phone instead of a PDA.

Hans

@number6

Not quite what I was referring too, although guess there were many threads speculating on this.

@Rogue

Any plans for another portable AmigaOS4-device? :)

I'd really like to have an AmigaOS-phone!

@jaokim

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You know of any 3G/4G cellular chipsets that we could use (including getting all the docs)? GSM is too dated now; plus, its encryption has been cracked.

Realistically speaking, this would be a pretty big undertaking. The eLap had IBM behind it; anything done today would have to be done independently.

Hans

EDIT: That's quite an understatement. It would be a huge undertaking to design and build a PowerPC phone, and then adapt Amiga OS 4 to use it.