Tapwave Zodiac is a combination of mobile play console, Organizer, video and MP3-Player, which were brought by the company Tapwave in October 2003 on the market.

The US-American enterprise Tapwave was created 2001 by Peng Lim and Byron Connel, two former Palm managers. Further Palm specialists such as Marian Cauwet and David Wenning associated with Tapwave, whose first product carried the code name "“Helix"”.

At the end of of 2004 was driven out the Zodiac also in England and release in Germany was planned for 2005. Before it came to it, Tapwave communicated at the end of of July 2005 to capitulate before the competition. Meanwhile the rights were sold at the Zodiac at Motorola.

Technical data

• CCU: i.MX1 ARM9 with 200Mhz
• GPU: ATI Imageon
• RAM: Zodiac 1:32 MIB (20MiB usable)/Zodiac 2:128 MIB (116MiB usable)
• Display: 3,8 " Touchscreen with 480x320 pixels and 65,536 colors, alternatively horizontal or vertically usably
• Sound: Sound chip of Yamaha, Stereosound, 3,5mm headphone exit
• Operating system: PalmOS 5.2T (modizifiert)
• Play engine: Fathammer X-Forge
• Expandabilities: 2 SD-Card-card locations, one of it SDIO able.
• Communication: USB 2,0, Bluetooth 1.1
• Control elements: 1 Joystick, 4 action keys, 2 shoulder keys, 4 system keys ("“power"”, "“Bluetooth"”, "“Function"”, "“Home"”), pin
• Other: Vibration engine for plays and other applications
• Akku: 1540 mAH
• Size: 143 x 79 x 14 mm
• Weight: 170g

Interesting

• The SDIO Slot supports not only the Palm WLAN map, but also the WLAN maps of Sandisk.
• Apart from applications, which were generally written for PalmOS, there are versions also adapted, which use the special characteristics (diagram accelerators) of the Zodiac. However that is possible access to the Zodiac hardware only for software marked by the manufacturer. However a Softwaretool since adjusting sale on the part of Tapwave, whatever makes possible the execution of unsignierter programs, circulates. However the legal situation is not undisputed.
• Also Freeware e.g. supports the auxiliary hardware of the Zodiac, like the Videoplayer TCPMP.

Related links

• German forum for the Zodiac (and PowerPC PDAs)
• German forum/portal for PalmOS PDAs
• Large English forum

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