Well, I can't really recommend much about the newton but I can recommend the next best thing - the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet (collectively known as the "N810", as I've seen).
This PDA-like gadget has wifi, bluetooth, both on-screen (in certain situations) and flip-out keyboards, and... runs a fork of Debian Linux as its official operating system! With a few hours (well, probably days) of work, you could possibly find a Newton emulator and compile it for ARM, if you wanted to, or just use the N810's built in Firefox-like web browser (well it isn't actually Firefox, it just uses FF's rendering engine in a smaller package).
I don't personally like OS2008 (which will be OS2009 in a few days
) but you're free to put whatever ARM-compiled Linux stack you want on it. I plan to do so when I get one. I'm not so sure if the Skype and GPS mapping applications (oh, it has a GPS too) will play nice outside the official Debian-like environment it comes packaged with, but you never know.
If your area also takes advantage of Wimax, there's a new Wimax-supporting version of the N810 available too.
-dav7
This PDA-like gadget has wifi, bluetooth, both on-screen (in certain situations) and flip-out keyboards, and... runs a fork of Debian Linux as its official operating system! With a few hours (well, probably days) of work, you could possibly find a Newton emulator and compile it for ARM, if you wanted to, or just use the N810's built in Firefox-like web browser (well it isn't actually Firefox, it just uses FF's rendering engine in a smaller package).
I don't personally like OS2008 (which will be OS2009 in a few days
) but you're free to put whatever ARM-compiled Linux stack you want on it. I plan to do so when I get one. I'm not so sure if the Skype and GPS mapping applications (oh, it has a GPS too) will play nice outside the official Debian-like environment it comes packaged with, but you never know. If your area also takes advantage of Wimax, there's a new Wimax-supporting version of the N810 available too.
-dav7