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Sharp Zaurus SL-C860 Announced For Japan

Posted by simoniker on from the in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com reports that Sharp will introduce a new member in its Linux-based Zaurus PDA family in the Japanese market on Nov. 27, 2003. The SL-C860 appears to be a more powerful and feature-rich version of the much-reviewed SL-C750/760. The device boasts a 400MHz Intel PXA255 processor equipped with 128MB of Flash memory (65MB available for user programs) along with 64MB of SDRAM memory, has a 640x480 resolution full-VGA color display, and runs an embedded Linux operating system based on Metrowerks's OpenPDA handheld device software stack."

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  1. neato Japanese display by kaan · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're still stuck with old school pixels here in the U.S., but according to the article, the Zaurus will have a 640x480 pixil display. Isn't that similar to a pixel, but, like, cooler and stuff?

  2. Cut the crap by The+Munger · · Score: 3, Funny

    The device boasts a 400MHz Intel PXA255 processor equipped with 128MB of Flash memory (65MB available for user programs) along with 64MB of SDRAM memory, has a 640x480 resolution full-VGA color display

    OK, OK. Just give us the specs we need: What's it like for porn?

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  3. The picture of it. by ForestGrump · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember back in high school (1998), there was this guy who went around with a little laptop (about the same size as the sharp in the picture is).

    He used it to play starcraft during class.
    Anyway, it didn't fly too well with the teacher. Rumor has it that his father found out and hit him over the head with the laptop- smattering it into bits and thus rendered it useless.

    just a memory triggered by the picture.
    -Grump

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  4. Re:URL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your sig is out of date:

    Searched the web for b. Results 1 - 10 of about 366,000,000. Search took 0.18 seconds.

  5. Obligatory SCO post by Sp4c3+C4d3t · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does SCO get $699 profit from each one sold ;)?

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  6. How long... by clifgriffin · · Score: 2, Funny

    till this thing runs Windows?

    (Laugh, it's a play on "How long before it runs Linux?")

    Blogzine

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  7. DOS emulator? by CarlDenny · · Score: 4, Funny

    VGA graphics + 64M of disk space. Meeemories.

    I want my old DOS 5.0 machine emulated. 400Mhz ARM procesor should be enough to emulate a 16Mhz 386, although I suspect emulating the memory controller would be trouble. I demand Wing Commander and Windows 3.1 on my PDA. Maybe a bit of Ultima 7.