Hello,

Sometime ago I bought Linux based PDA - Zaurus SL-5500. I have installed OpenZaurus 3.5.4 on it and using it for various tasks:
* books reader (with cyrillic)
* mp3 and ogg player
* dictionary (english-russian)
* some blessings holder (I read them through opera on locally installed apache+php).
* addressbook

I am still not sure whether I can use it as GPS navigator in Israel: several programs exists, but AFAIK none provides nor maps for Israel, nor ability to import them from some other program.
Do you know of any way to use the PDA as GPS navigator?

The OpenZaurus has package opie-multikey, that provides keymaps for on-screen keyboard to type international symbols and send unicode codes to applications. Unfortunately, the opie-multikey program lacks hebrew keymap file. I have no idea of the keymap file format, and thus attached russian and arabic keymaps file in hope for someone to recognize the format.
Is there somewhere an ready to use opie-multikey format for hebrew?

Upon completion of previous task, the next task I would like to use the PDA for is Hebrew-English dictionary. The OpenZaurus has opie-odict and zbedic as dictionary engines, but no hebrew dictonaries.
Do you know of any public domain hebrew-english dictionaries?

I have found several popular blessings on internet in unicode format of various quality. Most of them lack nikud, many are for Sfaradim and all of them are not interactive. I wrote ugly hack on php that consultes with hebcal [taken from debian ARM distribution] on RoshHodesh and inserts "Yaale veYavo" into "Birkat haMazon", but that is.
Are there any public domain blessings in open (read: plain unicode) format?

The following is not so Israel related, but still...

My wife sometimes steals the PDA for books reading, so I am looking for new one. And I want it to be SmartPhone, e.g. to include phone capabilities. The closests I have found is (still vaporware) http://www.road-gmbh.de/en/produkte/index_01.html.
Do you have other recomendations for Linux enabled, tamperable ( e.g. no Motorola please), smart phone?

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Arieh

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