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TurboLinux Wizpy to hit the stores this month

Good news for those waiting for a DAP that allows them to carry a complete Linux desktop in their pocket, as TurboLinux has announced that its Wizpy will go on sale to most of the world sometime this month.

TurboLinux has announced that its Wizpy device will go on sale sometime this month. The TurboLinux Wizpy is a multimedia media player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system. When plugged into a PC's USB port the user is given the opportunity to boot-up the Linux system that resides in the Wizpy's memory.

User settings, passwords and bookmarks can be stored inside the Wizpy, with the desktop set up to the user's preference so that no matter what PC is used to host the Wizpy, the user gets their familiar desktop.

The device also doubles as a multimedia player. It has a 1.7-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) color screen and keypad on the front. Within is software to play music in Ogg, MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats, and to show XviD and MPEG4 video files and JPEG images. It can also record sound to MP3 files and display text files, and has an FM radio.

The diminutive player will first be launched in nations where English is the primary language: the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, India and Singapore. It will be followed with non-English language versions either late in 2007 or in early 2008.

[ Via engadget ] [ Via yahoo ]