Does anyone know of a place in Norwich that sells the Sharp Zaurus PDA pls? I've been looking to buy one for a while now and since they are *relatively* cheap, as I've discovered tonight, I'm even more tempted :-)
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
*googles*
cheers,
BenE
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:16:52PM +0100, BenE wrote:
Does anyone know of a place in Norwich that sells the Sharp Zaurus PDA pls? I've been looking to buy one for a while now and since they are *relatively* cheap, as I've discovered tonight, I'm even more tempted :-)
I got mine from http://www.expansys.com I know its not in Norwich but they were/are cheap and fairly reliable for that kind of stuff.
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
Well I own one, the first thing I did was ditch the Sharp Linux and replace it with openzaurus http://www.openzaurus.org mine syncs to my work (windows atm) desktop using qtopia which you can download from the trolltech website. There are linux packages that do the same also so it should be relatively easy to get working. My Zaurus at home uses a wireless lan to connect to things and at work it uses the USB cradle (this can have problems in linux if you have a kernel lower than 2.4.21pre7 so you may need to walk on the wild side a bit)
Anyhow the Zaurus is a great little bit of kit, you may want to factor the cost of getting a 128Mb MMC for it so you can run your / filesystem off that and then dedicate 64Mb of memory for RAM.
Adam
I also own a Zaurus, which I have had for a long time. It is a nice bit of kit, as a toy, though I do have problems with it as a PDA. I currently run OZ 3.2, which I have inherited many problems such as the Z locking when docking in cradle, hard locks now and again, slow after a suspend, some of the apps which I need to organise my life are buggy and in some instances fail to work. I am sure many of these issues can be resolved if you have time to speak to the ever growing community, which I don't, which is why my Z has been neglected by not being used. Yeah it is cool, but for me it was an expensive toy which fails to deliver out of the box, again unless you have time. I have debated switching back to the latest Sharp ROM, though I hear it still doesn't match OZ.
Anyone used the crow rom?
Jamie
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:16:52PM +0100, BenE wrote:
Does anyone know of a place in Norwich that sells the Sharp Zaurus PDA pls? I've been looking to buy one for a while now and since they are *relatively* cheap, as I've discovered tonight, I'm even more tempted :-)
I got mine from http://www.expansys.com I know its not in Norwich but they were/are cheap and fairly reliable for that kind of stuff.
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
Well I own one, the first thing I did was ditch the Sharp Linux and replace it with openzaurus http://www.openzaurus.org mine syncs to my work (windows atm) desktop using qtopia which you can download from the trolltech website. There are linux packages that do the same also so it should be relatively easy to get working. My Zaurus at home uses a wireless lan to connect to things and at work it uses the USB cradle (this can have problems in linux if you have a kernel lower than 2.4.21pre7 so you may need to walk on the wild side a bit)
Anyhow the Zaurus is a great little bit of kit, you may want to factor the cost of getting a 128Mb MMC for it so you can run your / filesystem off that and then dedicate 64Mb of memory for RAM.
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Jamie French wrote:
Anyhow the Zaurus is a great little bit of kit, you may want to factor the
cost
of getting a 128Mb MMC for it so you can run your / filesystem off that
and
then dedicate 64Mb of memory for RAM.
MMC or SD? Which is better?
MMC is better, for the following reasons
a. SD on the Z doesn't use the full 4 bit data path so MMC is the same speed as SD. b. MMC is cheaper than SD c. SD has DRM built in d. The module that allows you to access SD is non-free because of SD using DRM, this means you will be stuck on kernel 2.4.6 forever if you use SD if you get MMC then there is a chance/possibility it will work with later kernels.
Adam
Jamie, how long does the battery last on the Z ? Sz
Jamie French wrote:
Anyhow the Zaurus is a great little bit of kit, you may want to
factor the
cost
of getting a 128Mb MMC for it so you can run your / filesystem off that
and
then dedicate 64Mb of memory for RAM.
MMC or SD? Which is better?
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On Monday 14 April 2003 21:16, BenE wrote:
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
I've had mine for sometime now. I paid top dollar when they first became available (but I did get a free CF card, and mobile power kit thingy) It might be worth trying the Sharp website as I think they have a deal on on at the moment. There are new models that should be over here soon (hence the discounts) one that is functionally the same but with a faster chip and one that is a very different beast altogether.
All in all it is a cracking little widget, as a basic PDA I'd be forced to say that it is not as good as a decent Palm, but as a Linux machine in your pocket it is fantastic.
I did try OpenZaurus a while ago, it was very pretty but there were some (at the time) functional blips that stopped me from keeping with it. Maybe it's time I looked again.
Linux desktop sync with older kernels is not for the faint hearted, but it does work with a little patience and once connected via the USB cradle the Z simply appears as another machine on your network (the same is true for the Windows connection)
If you are going to stick with the Sharp rom and you are planning on connecting it to a network with untrusted users then one thing you must do it upgrade to a later ROM image (really easy to do) There is a nasty security flaw with the original ROM version.
Oh and install Interstellar Flames to impress your inquiring friends (the 3D graphics are out of this world on a PDA)
Wayne
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:16:52PM +0100, BenE wrote:
Does anyone know of a place in Norwich that sells the Sharp Zaurus PDA pls? I've been looking to buy one for a while now and since they are *relatively* cheap, as I've discovered tonight, I'm even more tempted :-)
I'm not sure about the price, but I got mine from John Lewis in Norwich. Also, I happened to notice the other day that argos (yes, really) have it in their in-store catalogues 'rather cheaply', so they might be worth a look...
Has anyone had any experience of them? I assume being linux based there would be no problems connecting my desktop to it. I've now realised that's prolly quite a big assumption, hmm?
mine's been fine, although I've not made any attempt to connect it to 'nux. (I use wireless to get software etc)..
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