Personally, I plan to stay away from Sharp products...I bought I Sharp
Mobilion (handheld CE machine). I bought it because all their literature
said it would be upgradeable. That never happened until some group of users
filed a class action suit...Sharp lost but never notified users and when the
users found out they made it very difficult to get an upgrade...moreover,
the battery pack died in less than six months...the touch screen went
bad...but other than that I liked it :)
Seriously, I think Sharp packs their products with tons of neat features
(color screens, built in modems, card slots, etc.) they just don't (from my
experience) pack in a lot of build quality.
Steven
-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Denis Krasnov
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:40 PM
To: newtontalk newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Sharp (was: No new Newton, but Palm might have
promise)
>
>> From: Denis Krasnov <dkrasnov_at_nyc.rr.com>
>>
>>> yet another possibility is new SL-5000 handheld from Sharp.
>>> Linux, Java, color, StrongARM, builtin keyboard, Opera browser, MP3.
>>> I've got a developer unit right now -- powerful, fast, has a lot of
>>> potential. although it's supposed to be available to consumers in a few
>>> months, I wonder whether it'll be ready -- the built-in organizer apps
need
>>> to be much improved, and more of the Linux and configuration complexity
need
>>> to be hidden.
>>
>> What about HWR ?
>
> it has HWR in separate areas (similar to PocketPC) for UPPER. lowercase,
> digits. also several soft keyboards, though the slide-out built-in kbd is
> rather cool.
>
>>> a few reviews:
>>>
>>> http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/zaurus-sl-5000d-review.html
>>> http://pencomputing.com/frames/sharp_zaurus.html
>>> http://www.palmstation.com/view_article.py?article=4930&flat_mode=1
>>> http://www.geek.com/pdageek/features/zaurus/index.htm
>>>
http://www.techtv.com/products/consumerelectronics/story/0,23008,3363075,00.
>>> html
>>> http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1292&page=1
I've ponds of questions ?
What Java API does it use ?
Is it a full implementation of Java 2 SE?
Does it support JMF ?
Are there some unsupported APIs ?
How does the developing process go, can I just compile a class on my mac and
use it in Zarus ?
Is java all you can code on for it, I mean to say when sound, video or
images concerned, java is not going very far , audio is implemented quite
poorly, graphics is a bit half-witted and all that ?
Cheers, Denis
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