I have a bitchin’ app for it too. I want to use it as a front-end – media selector (sort of remote) for my vehicle based entertainment system. I would probably end up using something like a keyboard based entry where I’d build an iPod style control panel into the dash and mount the screen somewhere near the dashboard.

It’s the perfect size and for that price I almost can’t pass it up. Sure I could use a regular-ass 7″ TFT like everybody else in mp3car.com but what fun is that?

I saw on other sites the possibility of a JTAG or even a full fledged 232 serial port (even ttl would be fine). Any thoughts on that? If so I could easily get OBD-2 data from my car and display that on the device as well. If it can’t handle the crunching like I suspect it can’t – I have a PC that can, and it could be the display device. (VNC or SSH x session over wifi in the ride).

Also I do a LOT of serial comms as my day-to-day job is IT manager, as well as “technical operations” – which means big freaking geek – send this guy when nobody else can figure it out. We do monitoring and control systems aboard oceangoing vessels – typically 80-300FT in length. I spend a LOT of time talking to machines with a laptop over serial ports (think Modbus, CANbus, proprietary stuff, Caterpillar/MTU/Detroit Diesel engines and generators, power panels, distribution panels, HVAC, fire systems, etc). So a serial port on a machine THIS size would be a godsend. Shoot even using it as the display end of a VNC session while a real laptop was physically connected over wifi.

I was MORE than shocked to see startx work!!!!!

Looking for my microSD card now to get started!