Re: Embedded Dev System suggestions/reccomendations please



Tom Lucas wrote:

Well it's not just the devlopment time either. If you can find a price
for a QVGA LCD, touch screen, backlight inverter, decent lump of RAM,
gig of flash and a processor to run it for less than you can buy a PDA
in 100off quantities then you'd be doing very well. And that doesn't
even include the battery.

Not to mention the tooling costs for cases, displays, board manufacture,
assembly testing and support. Focussing on application code on a existing
re-labeled standard PDA until the numbers are at least thousands
per month. I agree with Tom it is hard to to come close to competing
with current mass production units in costs and reliability.

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