Sharp Ships Zaurus SL-5600; 5500 Available Cheap 332
Bill Kendrick writes "LinuxDevices is reporting the good news: Sharp is now shipping the Zaurus SL-5600 Linux-based PDA. Compared to the SL-5500 that's been out for the past year, this new model sports a 400MHz X-Scale CPU, twice the Flash (32MB), twice the RAM (64MB) a much better battery (1700 mAh), and a real speaker and mic. Learn more at Sharp's website." And IceFox writes "Well I wasn't expecting this to happen till next week, but I guess it was put up early. For a limited time on hsn.com you can get a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA for $198.92, combined with a hsn.com coupon you can bring the price down to $169.08. For anyone who has wanted to play with this Linux PDA here is your chance to get it for very cheap." Update: 03/18 02:03 GMT by T : Reader Brendan Hoar corrects the listed specs: "The specs for the SL-5600 are incorrect. It should be 64MB of flash, 32MB
of SDRAM. It's technically *half* the RAM of the SL-5500, not twice the RAM." Thanks.
I dont get it (Score:5, Insightful)
please enlighten me someone.
Re:I dont get it (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I dont get it (Score:5, Interesting)
Use CF for stoarage yes, but you need the SD card for running (most) programs. Installing a program to the CF card will in most cases not work. For Swap you can use SD but there is a speed / number of Writes penalty.
Build in memory vs expansion options almost always comes out favoring expansions. The reason is the volatility and the machanics of the memory market. Most producers can not compete on memory procurement. Reason is the much longer cycle time of finished products (from initial production thru product in users hand) vs memory modules. Plus potential form factor issues, In addition there is the risk factor that the PDA producer rather not take. Risk is expensive even though you win once in a while. That being said I love my Zaurus
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Re:I dont get it (Score:2)
they allowed for it through SD (Score:3, Funny)
That said, I recently replaced my first zaurus ($300) with a new zaurus ($250) only to be given a heart attack by this article.
Re:I dont get it (Score:2)
Re:I dont get it (Score:5, Informative)
Memory on embedded devices is kept low, yes, partially because RAM costs $$, but more because RAM costs watts, and watts cost time (as in, less run-time) or weight+size (as in a bigger battery).
Often the type of RAM that uses less power is also bigger and more expensive than high-power-use cheap ram.
Your keychain device can afford the power-consumption, which comes from the wall where power is cheap. Also, your keychain device can go head and use that power-sucking RAM, 'cause it's got access to that wall-socket.
Re:I dont get it (Score:3, Interesting)
The real crippling factor is that in the 5500, the memory was all SDRAM which meant that you could flash with a different rom (openzaurus maybe) and have the full 64MB of main memory for loa
Re:I dont get it (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I dont get it (Score:2)
Re:I dont get it (Score:2, Interesting)
When is the C700 coming out (Score:3, Informative)
Re:When is the C700 coming out (Score:3, Informative)
Re:When is the C700 coming out (Score:2)
I am sure there is a dollars and sense reason, but it would seem that blackberry's (among others) would hint at this PDA being a success.
I could be wrong. Since you work for sharp, what gives?
Also, given the difference in the specs, would you hold out for the new zaurus or buy a deeply discounted SL-5500? I am thinking about buying one, but was hoping the price for the new ones would be around $400 considering the cost of add on cards and such. Also,
Re:When is the C700 coming out (Score:3, Informative)
alternatively, you can use a company like dynamism.com to get one - they actually don't mark it up much at all considering it comes with 1yr warranty and modifications to english
Re:When is the C700 coming out (Score:2, Informative)
Wonderful Tool (Score:5, Informative)
It runs Kismet [kismetwireless.net] (with the special socket drivers I can run low power for about 2 hours.) The software library is always growing, and the developers are happy to share their techniques for cross compiling/QT developing.
The wonderful thing about the Zaurus, is people already have developed and even COMPILED [killefiz.de] programs for the arm that run just fine on the Z, (mostly Ipaq/other linux SA device developers) but that means an even BIGGER [handhelds.org] software library.
The community is so helpful, you may be asking questions in the #zaurus channel in irc.openprojects.org and the person answering your question, just might have been the one developing the program you are asking about. It is not infrequent to hear "#Zaurus:So_and_so Yeah here that version is kinda buggy, I just compiled the new one here."
I have to mention Zauruszone even though it is no where near the community it used to be, there still are useful links [zauruszone.com]
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:2)
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:3)
I'll know more when my sl-c700 arrives and I flash it with openzaurus... with any luck it'll have a gui for the c700 in 2 weeks when I get it.
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:2)
Does that mean that out-of-the-box you can only do western languages (Latin 1)?
Which of the shipping programs would be able to do Unicode if I "added the encoding" (whatever that would mean)?
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:2)
So, yes it needs one package: You need to grab the unicode font.
I believe that I didn't have a problem with any of them after installing the unicode font on the sharp rom, however I don't use it anymore, so i can't test and tell you.
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:3, Informative)
One of the reasons is that it is Qt, which always supports Unicode, a
Re:Wonderful Tool (Score:3, Informative)
Media Player (Score:5, Interesting)
What have you been looking at for $600? (Score:2)
It has no buttons or touch screen, which doesn't so much matter to me because I'm rarely anywhere ne
Cool but... (Score:2, Interesting)
...as my palm130 (http://www.palm.com/products/palmm130/ )do all that I want, I won't switch; Linux or no Linux.
After all, as far as I can see, the only benefit this device offers is Linux; everything else has been done before either by Palm or bysome PocketPC (allthought I would never get one of those myself, for the same reason).
No Linux Desktop Apps to go along? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Microsoft Windows 98/98SE/2000 Professional/ME/XP"
So, then, Linux is a good enough platform for developing the thing on, and running the handheld software, but Sharp can't write desktop apps for us to synchronize it?
I'm sure it's very easy to set it up to synchronize with Evolution or whatever-else-you-want, but, seriously, why doesn't Sharp at least tout that it runs Linux as a marketing strategy?
I don't understand, someone please enlighten me.
Re:No Linux Desktop Apps to go along? (Score:5, Informative)
I actually like Qtopia Desktop better than Intellisync. Intellisync tends to freeze up windows if anything unusual happens with the transfer--never had that happen with Qtopia Desktop, even in windows.
Re:No Linux Desktop Apps to go along? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:No Linux Desktop Apps to go along? (Score:2)
You mean "obselete," I take it, which, by the way, is an unfounded and unsupported argument. Besides your obvious ignorance (and trolling), you've completely missed my point. I'm just wondering why Sharp wouldn't at least tout the fact that it runs on Linux as a selling point.
Same thing with TiVo. What's the purpose for excluding it from their advertisements? It may not help their sales, but neither can I see it hurting them. Why not give a little free publicity?
IMO, it's t
Re:No Linux Desktop Apps to go along? (Score:5, Insightful)
Probably because the target audience for TiVos are humans. Seriously, Dude, we're "Geeks," and just _some_ of us care about a device's OS. Sure, it would be great from a Linux Evangelist's perspective for every mainstream thingamabob running Linux to promote such, but I can just as easily see the Marketing Guy saying, "Look, can we ose-lay the Inux-Lay references, it makes it sound too geeky." Perfectly reasonable, given these companies' goal is to sell widgets, not push Linux.
Mickey D's doesn't tout what brand of vegetable oil it uses on its fries, Chyrsler doesn't promote the brand of spark plugs they use, Tommy Hilfiger doesn't waste copy space telling people where he buys his textiles. A Broadway show puts its actors names up in lights, not those of its stage crew.
Which brings us back to Sharp and the Zaurus. The guys who use and compile Linux already _know_ the Zaurus runs on it. We're already on the team, have done the research. It's a given. Sharp is out there competing with the Palm and PocketPC crowd, and the LAST thing they want to do is muddy the comparison waters with even a whiff of OS incompatibility.
Dare I? (Score:2)
Not having a PDA for the past couple years was OK, but then recently I decided to move back to electronic organization of my schedule. In this case, I was looking for features to convince me not to bust out the old Palm3. How does this compete with the new Sony CLIEs or the WindowsCE products?
Re:Dare I? (Score:2, Insightful)
If you want a portable personal computer, though, the Zaurus is pretty fucking cool. Just remember: it's a PC, not a PDA.
Re:Dare I? (Score:2)
It may not be the month on a couple batteries my gf's Palm Pro got, but it's a helluva lot more than the 3 hours you get on most WinCE/Zaurus devices. Taking class notes (1-4 hours every weekday) and reading stuff while waiting for the bus, I got 2 weeks or more on a charge. And I use my PDA a lot, probably more than most
Re:Dare I? (Score:5, Informative)
It's cheaper than any comporable device, has a screen which is backlit, and readable in the sunlight, has a software library with hundreds of titles.
It can run kismet, it has a wireless internet service (not WIFI but CDPD or some hybrid.) The battery is replaceable so you can carry 3-4 LIon batteries with you on a long flight (although expensive but worth it in my eyes). Flite is precompiled to run on the SA and can be used to read books/trigger events via your WIFI card/CF storage whatever.
Lets put it this way, if you like to play with your PDA, get a Zaurus and best of all it fits in your pocket.
Re:Dare I? (Score:2)
The web browser it comes with is pretty good combined with either my phone or my powerbook for IP connectivity.
I've yet to use the voice recorder, but I've got a couple of MP3 players that do a decent job. I still carry my iPod around, though (besides having a lot more storage, it's my #1 backup device for the home databases).
I've got several books on there, as well as pictures of the wife and kids.
When I get bored, I do de
Re:Dare I? (Score:2)
Re:Dare I? (Score:2)
Contrast this with palm, where things like minimizing the number of taps needed to perform a task was actually taken into consideration.
While I find writing GUI apps in python and running them on the Zaurus cool and useful for specific applicat
Re:Dare I? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm a big PDA nerd. I'm working on my own PDA OS/computing environment. And I've done a lot of comparisons between WinCE, Palm OS, Newton OS, and Linux.
Linux on the PDA can do a lot of slick things- run Apache, Emacs, Vi, Perl, Python, SSH, VNC and X11. WinCE can do that as well. There is an XFree port, multiple SSH clients (Free, free and commercial), etc. You can tunnel X11 over SSH
CORRECTION: 32MB RAM (SDRAM) and 64MB Flash (Score:5, Informative)
The 5600 has 32MB of RAM (giving it the same working memory in the standard configuration) and 64MB of read-write flash (giving it slightly more storage space).
So, there isn't really any more RAM for applications in the SL-5600.
Phone home? (Score:5, Interesting)
Sounds like the open-source VOIPs are finally in for some serious usage.
I guess batterly life (while using wifi) will still be pretty bad compared to a moderm mobile, but for international calls it would still be a godsend; I just spent a fortune calling to Europe from the GDC.
Re:Phone home? (Score:2)
Re:Phone home? (Score:3, Informative)
Might I point your attention to: tkcPhone [thekompany.com] by theKompany.com [thekompany.com]?
Re:Phone home? (Score:2, Interesting)
Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:5, Interesting)
For eBook use, one of the more popular applications for PDAs, you really need something more like the newer Sony Palm devices. This resolution isn't quite enough for crisp fonts (even with subpixel rendering) and it's small enough that most preformatted PDF/Web content still needs to scroll half a screen horizontally to be read at a legible magnification.
Can we please please see a Zaurus with a 360x480 display?
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
1) Reading on my monochrome 240x320 iPaq has never caused me any eye strain, headaches, etc. YMMV of course.
2)Sharp has already released in Japan the Zaurus SL-C700, which has avery nice 640x480 screen. I believe there is a company importing these with modification to be usable by english reading/non-japanese reading people.
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
I borrowed a Sony Clie for a while at a slightly higher resolution, and it made all the difference in the world.
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
Just a thought.
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
Maybe some sandpaper and a light touch and I could 'frost' the display...
More than just the screen (Score:2)
I've written about this before (and probably will again) but these devices still only synch with a relatively small body of address books and calendars, much less a lot of the other stuff out there. Sure yo
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
I've actually started to prefer reading books o
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2)
Re:Almost. So close, if only for the screen! (Score:2, Insightful)
ebay=~200 (Score:2, Informative)
average price on ebay: ~200
with the coupon it is a deal, but not 300+$ off like the hsn website would lead one to beleive, even if it is "mint in box"
Re:ebay=~200 (Score:2)
Wrong specs listed up top. (Score:5, Informative)
64 flash (that is rw via jff2)
32 RAM
The SL-5600, which is powered by a 400 MHz Intel XScale processor, features a reflective QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) color LCD screen and a unique integrated QWERTY keyboard with sliding cover. It also includes a rechargeable (and replaceable) 1700 mAh battery, 64MB of protected Flash memory, 32MB of SD-RAM, dual expansion via CompactFlash and SecureDigital/MMC card slots, and an integrated speaker and microphone. The software stack is based on Linux along with the Qtopia GUI environment and PIM suite, Opera embedded browser, and the Geode Java virtual machine.
Re:Wrong specs listed up top. (Score:2)
-1, Too US Centric (Score:5, Informative)
Re:-1, Too US Centric (Score:2, Funny)
Read the FAQ (Score:2)
Funny, I don't see people complaining that articles about proposed censorship laws in New Zealand are kiwi-centric.
Re:-1, Too US Centric (Score:4, Informative)
Couldn't take it any longer.... (Score:4, Funny)
SL5000 (Score:3, Informative)
Also make a cool MP3 player with cheap SD cards. There is so much I could write. Just get one. It rocks
Rus
A good minicomputer, but not a good PDA. (Score:5, Insightful)
I have a Zaurus, and while it's a great minicomputer, it's not a good PDA by any stretch.
After about 3 or 4 months of using the Zaurus, it went back on the shelf, and the old Psion Revo+ came out instead. The Revo/5mx just kick it all over the Zaurus (and PocketPC) when it comes to doing Actual PDA Stuff. The address book/agenda tool on the Revo is miles ahead of what you have on the Zaurus, and still better than what's on the PocketPC. And, if you want to kick it up a notch, the Word/Sheet programs on the Revo handle Word and Excel files about a hundred times better than Hancom Word/Sheet on the Zaurus. I just feel more productive with the Revo, and it seems that the software is better.
It's funny, but the Revo+ runs at about 1/6 the speed of the Zaurus, but Opera seems to render pages just as fast. It has half the memory, but it doesn't have any of the memory/space limitations I ran into on the Zaurus' internal memory. (Yeah, I kept the MP3s on a CF card).
I do hope that the OpenZaurus project continues, but it seems that they're not making any huge strides in the PIM areas. From what I understand, OZ's email client doesn't really work at all. Not confidence inspiring.
But I do miss the mp3 player.
Re:A good minicomputer, but not a good PDA. (Score:2, Informative)
OZ [openzaurus.org] doesn't have an email client. OZ is just the underlying filesystem and system, not the gui or the applications. Opie [handhelds.org] is the default GUI/application set that OZ uses. PicoGUI [picogui.org] is really coming along, though, and that's another option for a GUI.
I can't dispute your claims on the Revo, however, because I've never owned one. I can say that I prefer my Zaurus over my old Visor Deluxe, however, even though most people claim PalmOS is "better". The interfa
Re:A good minicomputer, but not a good PDA. (Score:4, Insightful)
So why'd I sell it and go back to using a Palm m505 after a few months? Mostly because the capabilities of the SL-5500 were things I really had no use for. If I needed to browse the web on a tiny screen, or needed VNC or other networking tools in a miniature package, I never would've let this thing out of my sight. As it was, though, it didn't do basic PIM functions nearly as well as Palm (even with theKompany's products), and --- this is the real killer --- was simply too big. If a PDA is too big, I don't carry it around, and if I don't carry it with me, it's useless.
Everyone's needs are different, and I hope that a variety of devices continue to be available to meet them. Sharp's an important player here. Not only are they selling one of the best handheld tools out there, but their presence is one more barrier to the erosion of choice we'd have if Palm or Microsoft monopolized the market.
Whippersnapper! Re:A good minicomputer (Score:3, Funny)
Back in my day, people understood that "minicomputer" was the thing between "mainframe" and "microcomputer" on the hierarchy of power...
SL-5500 vs SL-5600? (Score:2)
Re:SL-5500 vs SL-5600? (Score:2)
The SL-5500 has 64MB of SD-RAM, but it's typically divided between 'storage space' (like a hard drive on a desktop) and 'place for programs to run in' (like RAM on a desktop), much like other PDAs do it.
This gives you, by default, 32MB of 'RAM' and 32MB of 'storage.'
On the new SL-5600, they've got only 32MB of SD-RAM, but it's all used as 'RAM'.
So no loss there (unless you were doing something funky with your SL-5500 to get more than 32MB; like running your filesyst
Re:SL-5500 vs SL-5600? (Score:2)
I was considering one of these after seeing this deal, but it'd be a shame to give up my beautiful 2 GB PCMCIA drive.
Re:SL-5500 vs SL-5600? (Score:2)
> processor (at least in theory), 5500 has more RAM (64MB vs 32MB),
> but 5600 has more Flash-RAM. Which one is faster?
To clarify this a little:
The 5500 splits its DRAM in two. Half the DRAM is used for memory, and the other half is used for storage. So the 5500 in its default setup has 32MB storage, 32MB memory.
The 5600 uses the DRAM exclusively for memory, and the 64MB Flash is used for storage, and 32MB DRAM is, as I said, memory
mplayer (Score:2, Funny)
5500 vs 5600 -- strongly consider the 5500 (Score:4, Informative)
I'm excited about the 5600 for my use and still recommend the 5500 for general development and use.
Go Sharp!
Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:4, Interesting)
- How's the battery life? ~4 hours? ~20 hours? How much do you use your s and how often do you have to recharge?
- The OS that comes presinstalled, it's linux based right? Do I get a shell with it? Can I compile and run most linux apps? What's the deal with OpenZaurus?
I did try and get answers from HSN and myzaurus.com (and even openzaurus.com) but these ones weren't answered.
Thanks!
Re:Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:4, Informative)
> - How's the battery life? ~4 hours? ~20 hours? How much do you
> use your s and how often do you have to recharge?
I have a SL-5000D, which has a much smaller battery than the SL-5600. It gets a little better battery life than the Handspring Visor Prism, if that helps. Actually, it's probably much better in the summertime, since the Prism's screen is unreadable in the daylight, but I could totally turn off the front-light on the Zaurus in daytime (for longer hours and all that). Still, I keep mine plugged in as often as possible, though I do have it set up to have all my data on the Flash ROM, so I don't lose anything (even installed apps, even prefs, whatever) if I do lose power.
> - The OS that comes presinstalled, it's linux based right?
Yeah. Based on Debian's arm-ported binaries, though it's not Debian itself. I think that there is a debian port (with X and all), but that's just insane, man!
> Do I get a shell with it?
Sharp put its terminal program on the CD. It's easy enough to install, but there are better choices. There's a port of Konsole (the tabbed terminal program used in KDE) for the Zaurus that is very popular.
> Can I compile and run most linux apps?
Good question. If you're good at cross compiling, you'll probably have good luck with command-line apps. Graphical apps are a little different. The Zaurus doesn't normally use X. X is huge for a PDA. You could get it, but that's
> What's the deal with OpenZaurus?
It's mostly just a different ROM with different default applications. It uses Konqueror/Embedded instead of the Opera browser. It's made with ssh in mind instead of the insecure ftp that the Zaurus normally uses. It has better scripting support, though I haven't really looked at that stuff. The launcher configuration is amazing, at least compared to what Sharp offers for the SL-5000D. I can change background images for each category, I can change fonts, I can alter the widget style, I can have transparent menus
On the negative side, OZ 3.0 can be a bit crashy and there's a few things that it doesn't work with (Opera, most Hancom Office -- the best office suite for PDAs, bar none -- stuff, and java apps), so if your life depends on that stuff, you might want to stick with Sharp.
-JC
Re:Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:2)
Generally, battery life is sorta bad: I use my Zaurus for about 10-15 minutes a day (on/off use, basically) and with that, the battery life is about 3 hours. When playing mps, though, ends up being about an hour of use.
When the battery is uncharged, everything goes bye-bye, too: I'm in the habit of backing up monthly.
"- The OS that comes presinstalled, it's linux based right?"
Yes.
" Do I get
Re:Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:4, Informative)
Battery life for me has been about 2 to 2.5 hours with full backlight on (it's got 5 different settings, including off. The darker you go, the longer it lasts). The screen is very reflective, so if you're outside (or sitting in a window seat on a plane) you can turn the backlight off and get as much as 4-5 hours out of it.
It seems to charge back up completely pretty quickly once you plug it in, though. And I normally leave it sitting in the cradle (a la Palm V) charging when I'm not holding it in my office, etc.
But the short battery life definitely sucks if you're truly mobile with it (I fly quite a bit for business). How I wish it took regular (rechargeable) AAA batteries like my Palm...
It uses embedded Linux as the underlying OS (uname shows "2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix").
There are a couple of free terminal apps you can install (including multi-tab Konsole) to get a shell while in GUI mode. Or I suppose you could kill the GUI and run at the command line... but who wants that in a PDA?
There are a couple of howtos for cross-compiling for, and native compiling on, the Z at docs.zaurus.com [zaurus.com]. I don't any of that myself (yet), though, so I can only say I've glanced at the docs and they seem fairly straightforward.
OpenZaurus is a ROM image replacement that gives you more access to the installed RAM, etc. I haven't run it myself, but I've seen lots of positive comments. One note: some/many commercial Zaurus app providers like theKompany [thekompany.com] only support official Sharp ROMs. If you load their stuff on OZ and it doesn't work, oh well. But the OZ developers seem to be interested in knowing about problems like that to make OZ better.
BTW, theKompany apps rock (IMO) compared to the built-in ones. Yes, they cost a couple of $$ each, but you get free upgrades for life.
For all it's shortcomings, I haven't found much I can't do with the Z that I do use the Palm IIIxe for. And the "wow" factor of listening to my OGG files while surfing wirelessly or writing something with the keyboard is right up there... I can't count the number of people next to me on flights who have said "what _is_ that thing?"
Re:Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:2)
Yes, both from its built-in keyboard and via ssh.
Can I compile and run most linux apps?
Command line applications compile and run just fine. Most Linux GUI apps don't because it runs Qt/Embedded by default. However, there is an X11 server and environment available for it (see handhelds.org).
Re:Questions for a current Zaurus owner... (Score:3, Insightful)
If you plug in a 512M CF card, the whole thing is more powerful and has more memory and disk storage than most workstations had less than a decade ago.
I wouldn't buy one! (Score:2)
Personally, I wish I could get rid of my 5500.
Re:I wouldn't buy one! (Score:2)
Linux + wireless + camera on PDA? (Score:2)
I have a Toshiba e740, which has built-in 802.11b wireless and CF and SDIO slots, but I haven't seen Linux for it and I haven't yet found the time to look into trying to port ARM Linux
Irony? (Score:3, Funny)
So it runs Linux but requires Windows? Hahahahaha.
The HSN deal... (Score:2)
What about the screen? Does it have a nice reflective screen like the iPAQ's, that can actually be read out-of-doors? I'm an ecologist and use a PDA [among other things] for field data collection... I have Newton 2100 and a Jornada 720 and am still using the Newton more than the Jornada 720. A big part of this is that I cannot see the J720's screen in natural light almost at all, but the greyscale screen of the Newton is
it's just funny (Score:4, Insightful)
wrong memory figures (Score:3, Informative)
The reason is probably that without using an add-on Flash card, the old SL-5500 stored a lot of stuff in RAM, which was easily lost. The only reason I can imagine why they lowered the amount of SDRAM is for battery life, although that seems kind of short-sighted to me.
Screen rotation? (Score:2)
Bluetooth? (Score:2, Interesting)
Bluetooth is a must, wifi would be neat. With bluetooth I can get internet access through my GSM phone with GPRS. I use this all the time with my ipaq and Ericsson T68i (or Nokia 7650).
I can drool all day long over how cool the applications are, but without easy internet access when I am on the move, the device is useless.
Obligatory "UHF" Quote (Score:2, Funny)
-Crazy Earnie, the Used Car King
Re:Another Articletisement? (Score:2)
Sure it happens to be news about a new commercial product / discounts for an existing commercial product.
But it's news! (for nerds!)
-bill!
Re:so... (Score:2)
> have Mac, Linux, BSD machines only, no Windows in sight..
> will I be able to play with it at all or is Win req'd?
I can't help you with syncing (since I don't do that), but for all other types of access, the Zaurus is unbeatable in connecting to a Linux desktop.
The connection is IP over USB. So you can set up an ftp server, or an ssh server (I use scp to transfer files) on the Z. You could probably set up a samba (Windows SMB) share or
Re:so... (Score:2)
and future goal of Evolution support
For GNOME users, you can check out multisync. [sourceforge.net]
It already talks to Evolution, and I am working on an Opie/Zaurus plugin right now. The version in CVS is already partially working - hopefully within a few weeks it will be useable for everyday synching.
Re:sharp spams (Score:2)
Imagine if
Re:Coupon (Score:2)
Re:argh (Score:2)
I need to find a friend or a PO box in Buffalo NY :)