[CS-FSLUG] Sharp Zaurus

[Timothy R. Butler]

Hi Brad,
	I've had one for a few years. It's a neat little device and it'd be 
even better if you add a Wi-Fi card to it. As a whole, I've found for 
my purposes a smart phone makes a lot more sense, since I only have to 
carry one device (I have a Symbian OS Series 60 phone from Nokia), but 
depending on what you want to use it for, the Zaurus is very nice.

	My biggest complaint is that it never served my needs as a PDA. That 
may be remedied now, but I never could find a sync tool that could 
actually succeed in synchronizing it with Evolution or KDE's pim tools. 
While TrollTech provides Qtopia Desktop, having a separate address 
book, etc., on my PDA wasn't a good option.

	It's pretty neat having all of the *nix utilities in something that 
small, though. If you are buying it for a mini-mini-*nix box, then go 
for it. If you're looking for something that will do traditional PDA 
functionality well in addition to doing other stuff, get yourself a 
Palm Tungsten series unit.

	-Tim

On Feb 24, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Bradly McConnell wrote:

> Does anyone on the list own one of the Zaurus line PDA's?  I'm picking
> up a SL-5500 tomorrow.  From what I can tell, it's closer to a laptop
> with a small screen than a palm type PDA.  Just wanted to see what you
> guys (and gals) :) have heard about them or experienced.
>
> Brad
>
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