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Sharp C-700 English Conversion Pictures
BoogerBoy writes "When Sharp announced their clamshell designed
C-700 only in Japan I cried. Not anymore. It seems that only a week after its Japan release, the C-700 has been converted to English and for sale. Check out the pictures and brief English review."
they recently ran a little article praising Mozilla, as noted on mozillazine.org
I understand that they have added slightly less coy naked people, too, but Playboy has always been a relatively well-rounded magazine, in fact considerably less horn-dog oriented than things like "Maxim," it's just that the women in Playboy aren't wearing clothing.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
...is never overkill.
Okay, okay, I'm sure a lot of people will disagree, but with today's laptops being relatively lightweight and inexpensive, I don't see the point of these little doohickeys.
Give me my *real* computer, with 256mb of DDR SDRAM, 40gig hard drive, and DVD/CDRW. I can play The Sims while I'm waiting for classes to start, take notes on a keyboard large enough for serious typing, listen to as many MP3s as I can rip onto my hard drive... and keep my schedule and appointments and everything else close at hand, too.
Give me that over a $700 PDA any day.
Why is it that when companies make these devices, they never consider the posibility that someone might actually want to use these things as portable terminals?
And that perhaps, just perhaps, that person will want to do it securely via SSH?
I'm glad it runs linux. It means that it is only a hop/skip/jump away from recompiling ssh to run on the device.
I just wish that SSH should be a defacto and not a "special" package you add on for a large sum of cash.
Winged Power Photography
"special" package requiring cash, nope.
PS. I own one, heck I was the person to first get mplayer ported to it. We also have the battle of the media players xmms-embedded/mplayer vs opieplayer2/xine (right now, x/m is much much better), but your average person DOESN'T care. They just use the lousy built-in player for the most part.
I can't afford the C-700, I paid about $400 for my 5500 and I think it was worth the money. "Runs Linux" is nothing to sneeze at. It means that there are lots of free applications that I'm familiar with that works on the zaurus.
For me the biggest ones are emulators and network testing tools. A PDA that does all that plus fits in your pocket is worth the money.
I think these things clock in high on the "neat-o" scale, but that's about it, how do you justify 7 bones on a PDA?
Some people have the money and/or the need.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
the 320x240 is about the same size as my Zaurus, so screen shots for it look about right.
scaling one of the images down, it doesn't look bad, but I agree the icons look flat, the widgets don't look bad. (of course IMO)