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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."
to match it's other abilities. I run OpenZaurus on my SL-5500 and I can pick a kernel to use all the ram for swap, 48 swap / 12 storage, etc. This thing's biggest drawback is it only has 32mb of RAM, and my SL-5500 is pretty slow on some applications like the TKC apps when it only has 32mb of swap to chew on.
(Both RAM and hard drive space, that is.)
:)
This would be great on airplanes / in the car / anywhere a full-size laptop is overkill or just awkward.
However, as the review here points out, it doesn't have much storage space of either variety. I guess the ideal I'm hankering for would be something like this Zaurus (small, protected screen, built-in QWERTY keyboard) and the yet-unreleased OQO.
*Even* if it was only used as a small gaming / music / movie machine (a tiny all-media device), it would be very nice, if only there was more room on there. That it's also a nice computer for other things, even better -- if there was more room
(And Yes, microdrives can carry a fair amount, but a) they're quote expensive and b) maybe the bad apples get more news, but there seem to be a lot of complaints re: reliability. An ipod-size 10 or 20GB drive, that would be something, could carry several movies, days worth of audio, important files you don't want lost when the burglars invade your unoccupied home, etc.)
timothy
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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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I see that most of you all thing of PDA as only a note taking, appointment scheduling and multimedia (mp3) stuff tool. Cant blame you what with the current crop of Sony clies, Palms, and PocketPC atht allow you only so much and nothing more.
Well the Zaurus first of all is a Handheld - not a PDA - clear distinction there.
And to talk of the tools, you can remotely SSH into it, use it as a network too, demo (note I said demo, not use, so dont flame me there) Apache with PHP pages (even MySQL databse) on it to client on the move, SAMBA to Linux/Windows machines for tuning/Administering etc, use for VoIP long distance from a decent internet conncetion location, of course check your emails and all that regular stuff, do a full fledged internet browsing using Opera/Netfront (not your palm web-clipped stuff here), tenet into your university unix box and fetch your emails etc or lab notes...
I could tell you some more such PRACTICAL apps which the Zaurus provides and it IS a lot more carryable than lugging around the laptop - you got to agree to that.
"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.
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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)
Thank you /.'ers for the interest in the project. We have spent many long nights converting this. For those that have questions on it, please feel free to reply to this or the nvmax.com posting and I will answer as best as I can.
Please understand that my efforts have been in the conversion and I have not dedicated as much time into using the unit, but for the few things that I have used it for... it is remarkable.
LD