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Sharp C-700 English Conversion Pictures

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the me-likee-the-handhelds dept.

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."

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  1. Why don't they ever include SSH as a base package? by digital+photo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Not the intended market by pantherace · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The reason is that we (hackers, geeks) aren't the intended market. The "Average Joe" is, and KISS is very important, and they have a limited storage space. (64MB (compressed)) Openssh on a SL-5500 Zaurus takes up 3MB (uncompressed)

    "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.

  3. Re:Ultra, cool?? by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Lets face it people, what is it a PDA can do, that a watch/planner/and calculator can't (and lets just say a highend TI calc for all of you who want to say "play games") besides "RUN LINUX" there isn't anything.

    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.

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  4. Re:Is it just me... by pantherace · · Score: 3, Insightful
    remember, those are 640x480 screenshots, and at least on my 15" screen, they are about 4x as large as the physical screen would be.

    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)