There’s a new “military-grade” PDA in town and it’s set to make waves with its ruggedness.

SDG System’s Tripod Data Systems (TDS) Nomad is pre-installed with Angstrom Linux and Qtopia PDA Edition, and bundled with a toolsuite and build environment based on OpenEmbedded

SDG Systems has on previous occasion ported TDS’s rugged PDAs to Linux. SDG made its first Linux port to the original Recon PDA back in 2005 at the request of 10East, a vertical ISV (independent software vendor) that sells to the railroad industry

This new edition of PDA has upgraded to an 806MHz PXA320, its RAM doubled to 128MB, and flash memory increases to either 512MB or 1GB.

The Nomad also has an improved display, moving up to a backlit, 480×640 portrait VGA touchscreen

The Linux version of the Nomad sells for $1,650 to $2,300

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