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Retail Sharp Zaurus Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-is-better dept.

Arminius writes "It looks like Sharp has finally released the Linux based Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for retail sale. This thing is so awesome! Other than only being able to listen to mp3's thru my headphones only, this thing blows away my iPaq 3835! It even has Opera as the web browser. "

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  1. Re:Walking On Broken Glass by FirstPost+Foundation · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Your fp has been claimed for little starving orphan in Chicago who has never had the privilige of experiencing a first post.

    Oh, and eat shit, you anonymous douche bag!

  2. $500 fucking dollars? by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Five fucking hundred dollars? That's un fucking real. Linux based? The fucker better be *anything* based for five hundred dollars. For $50, you can get a cheap Palm IIIe, then spend $400 on an iPod. Total savings: $50. Increase in functionality: two fucking million percent.

    Sharp seems to be really eager to promote all this Linux shit. Here's my prediction. An army of people silently reading the amazon.com page saying "Five hundred fucking dollars? mothafucks!" Sales are flat, sharp says "Aw, fuck this linux shit. It fucked us proper."

    You want a fucking mp3 player, buy a fucking mp3 player. You want a laptop, buy a used laptop on eBay that has more features for less cost. This is outfuckingrageous.

    In the meantime, I will avoid reading this type of bullshit immediately after consuming large amounts of caffeine. I'm fucking livid.

    1. Re:$500 fucking dollars? by Uller-RM · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      About the same as an iPod bud - those things are beefy enough to run Quake and Quake2, and in fact both have been ported. Can you say the same for your Palm3? Hahhahaha fuckno.

      For that matter, try to decode MPEG-1 or MP3 on your Palm. Hahahahah fuckno.

      Embedded technology is cheap as long as it can't do much. When you want to build a palmtop that can actually DO something people ooh and ahh over, it's not quite so cheap.

  3. Supports only Windoze Media files?!!?! by anticypher · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Not that the site likes my browsers all that much[netscape4.78 or IE4.0 on slowlaris], but from poking around it seems to only play Windoze Media files, but not .wav, mp3, or any other kind of audio file. Synch is proprietary, and the only synch agents run on windoze, etc.

    There may be some linux on this, but it seems to be completely crippled as a walkman/rio replacement. There are a ton of other limitations, and no mention of linux pretty much anywhere on the official site.

    Until I see some glowing reviews from independent sources, I'm sticking with pencil and notebook :-)

    the AC

    --
    Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
  4. Sharp "we are proprietary" Zaurus by mmusn · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    When I visit their site with Mozilla 0.9.9, I get an error message that they only support IE and Netscape4. And for their handheld, they chose a window system that excludes most open source toolkits from co-existing on the same screen.

    Looks to me Sharp is trying to milk open source for its advertising value, but somehow they just don't get it.

    Thanks, but I'll have a look at the new Sony instead. Commercial developers don't have to pay money to develop for the Sony, and it's a cool piece of hardware anyway.