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Zaurus SL-5600/SL-5500 Comparison Whitepaper

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the handhelds-to-desire dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "A cool as the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA is, there are definitely some quibbles about battery life, software and syncing. Fortunately, it seems the folks at Sharp and TrollTech have been working on it for the new 5600 model. Sharp just posted a whitepaper (PDF) comparing the two models. (Newer kernel, no more root-privs-for-everything, JFFS2, dropping slow XML for PIM stuff, and USB-IO syncing, to name a few.)"

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  1. Re:OpenZaurus is better by krow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I found that Open Zaurus:
    1) Crashed more often
    2) Email application was more primitive
    3) The backup didn't work at all
    4) The application to install packages looked nicer but screwed up for more often.

    I went back to using the normal ROM's for this reason.

    Maybe someday...

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    You can't grep a dead tree.