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Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: zmiq2 on February 14, 2006, 10:27:16 am

I have just been at the 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, and:

1) sharp had a C3100 in a glass cabinet, next to other phones, but the only one without any label. When I asked the man next about that one, he (a Japanese guy) just told me it was a Japan-only model. They are really making no effort to promote it

2) I could see another C3000 and the Opera stand

3) Trolltech had another stand, but I could only see qtopia enabled phones there

but certainly windows mobile is getting everywhere.

I think that linux had its time, but we didn't take advantage of being first it the high advanced mobile phone arena. Now anyone is has windows or symbian, and there wasn't any mention about linux.

And, I love the new SonyEricsson comin !!. The M600, and the new walkman (the black one) is really slim, with 4GB flash and nice non-protuding buttons.


I forgot my camera at home, so I cannot post any pictures; maybe I'll go back tomorrow ...

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: Leinadmx on February 14, 2006, 11:51:23 am

Hi, good day

Unfortunetly  I think that the future of the Zaurus is a mistery because there is not activity in the official Zaurus web site since a while:
http://ezaurus.com (http://ezaurus.com)

Besides How all we know Windows is "winning" territory, but we must keep on our mind that Zaurus just belong to Japan (in a formally way).

What do you think?
Best regards.

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: danboid on February 14, 2006, 12:52:32 pm

I can't disagree about Sharp not bothering to promote the Z properly, but I wouldn't be so sure of the "Linux has failed in the phone market" bit. Reading Linuxdevices.com, there are many new Linux based phones being released at the moment and last year saw a boom in such devices. I've heard Linux is the most popular smartphone OS in Asia and new Linux phones will probably only be outnumbered by Symbian ones in 2006.

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: bluedevils on February 14, 2006, 02:02:42 pm

well palm os is taking another stab at linux

palm at 3gsm (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/14/palmsource_linux_alp/)

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: zmiq2 on February 14, 2006, 04:05:13 pm

Uhm... yeah, but what really people at 3gsm was talking about is the 100 phones with windows mobile that are going to be launched this year.

And of course, most of the applications providers (gps maps, business data access, ...) were talking windows mobile/symbian only.

I hope I'm wrong.

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: ashikase on February 14, 2006, 07:11:44 pm

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Unfortunetly  I think that the future of the Zaurus is a mistery because there is not activity in the official Zaurus web site since a while:
http://ezaurus.com (http://ezaurus.com)

Actually, there has been some activity - just yesterday. Sharp has announced that they are shutting down the "User" and "3rd Party" sections of the ezaurus.com site at the end of February. They do not state why.

- ashikase
- anpachi, gifu, japan

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: bluedevils on February 14, 2006, 09:23:00 pm

hmmm....not very uplifting

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: Antikx on February 15, 2006, 12:26:55 am

kind of downlifting....

But perhaps they are doing the "out with the old and in with the new"!
Maybe they have new, better things planned!

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: speculatrix on February 15, 2006, 02:35:21 am

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kind of downlifting....

But perhaps they are doing the "out with the old and in with the new"!
Maybe they have new, better things planned!
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at first I was quite dismayed, because I remembered the 3x00 has an FCC id and therefore we all wondered whether Sharp would sell it in the USA and this never happened.

then I thought some more, and I realised that since Sharp don't sell the device outside Jp, there's no point in promoting it at all, so it might even be a *good* sign that it was there at all, in order to showcase Sharp's technology.

I can imagine that Sharp would do a tie-up with HTC to buy-in the mobile technology, since Sharp have somewhat missed the boat on PDA/communicators and smartphones.

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: rokugo on February 15, 2006, 11:29:41 am

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I can imagine that Sharp would do a tie-up with HTC to buy-in the mobile technology, since Sharp have somewhat missed the boat on PDA/communicators and smartphones.
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Far from missing the boat, Sharp is actually getting rave reviews 'back home' with its own "HTC-killer". In case you've forgotten: [a href=\"http://www.sharp.co.jp/ws/special/]http://www.sharp.co.jp/ws/special/[/url]

Title: Zaurus At The 3gsm World Conference
Post by: lpotter on February 16, 2006, 04:39:38 am

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I have just been at the 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, and:

3) Trolltech had another stand, but I could only see qtopia enabled phones there

but certainly windows mobile is getting everywhere.

I think that linux had its time, but we didn't take advantage of being first it the high advanced mobile phone arena. Now anyone is has windows or symbian, and there wasn't any mention about linux.

All those Qtopia phones run linux.
It's doing well in the chinese market. western markets are slow to pick up new things, especially the US market.


Sharp withdrew from the pda market in the west years ago.