Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 English Conversion

DavonZ writes "I have just released a small review/information on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 and the Dynamism English conversion. This is one sweet unit. You can check it out at nvmax.com."

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Borken dynamism link

[Anonymous Coward]

Try this instead.

Dynamism link...

[AntonyL]

Dynamism link should be http://www.dynamism.com/index.shtml

(hope I got that right)

more info

[loomis]

Here's another minor review and pictures via brighthand.

Also, a user at externe has posted about his first impressions in the Zaurus forums.

Good info in case the importer's/converter's website gets slashdotted.

Loomis

The Zaurus line

[Daimaou]

I have owned several Zaurus machines (both the English SL-5500 as well as several Japanese versions). I have also owned an iPaq and several Palm devices from both Palm and Handspring.

The Zaurus line is by far my favorite. I have really enjoyed the functionality of the SL-5500 and the flexibility of the Japanese versions I owned. I especially like the expansion modules available for my DBII machine.

The Zaurus machines seem a lot more sturdy to me as well. I was a bit concerned regarding the SL-5500's sliding keyboard cover before I purchased it, but it has proven to be sturdy and well made.

I really like the looks of this new offering from Sharp and look forward to using one.

Re:The Zaurus line

[antiMStroll]

For those interested, Tiger Direct is selling 'recertified' 5500s with a three month warranty for just under $300 CDN. I had mine long enough to just fully charge the battery before upgrading to the latest Sharp ROM (5600 equiv)from the My Zaurus site. Very sweet, and a ridiculous steal at a quarter the C750's price.

official site (in Japanese)

[mblase]

While they obviously lack the English conversion, you can also see the SL-C750 and SL-C760 at the Japenese eZaurus.com site.

Re:Thank the developers of your favourite browser.

[rsborg]

Thank you, Microsoft, for making my favorite browser Internet Explorer.

Uh... I think you misspelled Mozilla :-)
Did you notice that the lizard supports more bookmarklets than IE?

More information about ordering...

[pXgray]

I recently have been looking at these units and am pretty positive I am going to buy one. That being said, I would much rather prefer to order from Dynamism rather than conics.net, because of their technical support and English OS. However, you can't argue with the conics price ($629, vs. $699 at Dynamism), so I emailed them and asked them to match. Here's the offers they gave:

Package (1)
Zaurus C750 (in Japanese) $629
Shipping from our Tokyo office (3-5 days) $19
(you will also have to pay import duties on the shipment)
 No Dynamism technical support as the unit you get will be in Japanese
 Japanese OS
 Warranty service, but you will have to pay for shipping to our Tokyo office â" BTW, if Conics goes out of business, it will be basically impossible to get your unit repaired as Sharp Japan will NOT accept shipments from outside of the US. Also, by installing an English OS invalidates the warranty (we cover that if purchased through us).

Package (2)
Zaurus C750 (with our English OS) $677
Shipping $17
 Full Dynamism tech support for the lifetime of the unit
 Fed-ex rescue service (we pay all shipping while the unit is under warranty)
 English interface

They said that they would have to match the offer, not only the price, but they still were very receptive to dropping it a couple bucks, which is really cool of them to do.

pxgray