Tapwave Zodiac 2 - Gaming PDA

If you know about the Nokia N Gage handheld, you’ll know that it was a big flop. Tapwave is trying to break out into the market with their gaming PDA.

“The Zodiac 2 has two processors. The main Motorola Arm9 processor is supplemented by one devoted to graphics processing. ATI’s Imageon 4200 has its own 8MB of memory to help it speed along. There are stereo speakers one on each side of the screen. Output can be sent to a headset via a 3.5mm jack from the Yamaha audio processor. The screen itself is very nice, with a high quality 3.8in, 16bit colour display. The screen is touch sensitive, and the stylus lives in a hollow at the back of the casing.”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.