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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: nilch on May 12, 2006, 01:48:52 pm
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Damn sad to see this trendline... I wish there's a new release to nudge up the trendline some more towards the up direction again.
Zaurus Trend (http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus)
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Damn sad to see this trendline... I wish there's a new release to nudge up the trendline some more towards the up direction again.
Zaurus Trend (http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus)
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Sharp is obviously satisfied with being the big fish (PDA) in a small pond (Japan only). I think the Zaurus accomplished exactly what Sharp wanted, to show-off their cg silicon LCDs in a production PDA. They are now the dominate supplier of small screen LCDs in the world.
Unless Sharp is ready to debut to the world a major advancement in small LCD technology such as their "LCD Panel Speaker Developed with Integrated Visual Display and Audio Output" >> [a href=\"http://www.sharpsma.com/press/press.php?ArticleID=24]http://www.sharpsma.com/press/press.php?ArticleID=24[/url] << I don't think we will see any significant Zaurus upgrade and thus the trendline will likely continue to decline.
That and $3.75 will get you a double cappuccino at Starbucks.
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Must be a pc only feature. On my mac and the latest firefox, I get "Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.".
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of course the expense of available zaurii has risen, as has the complexity of their use. From a full service dealer a zaurus is comparatively an expensive device. Even from price japan any new Z is more than what a 5500 once cost, and the new one requires some possibly newbie proof configuring to get out of a japanese rom. Also, I kinda suspect that pda use as a whole has declined as phones get better. Outside japan, the zaurus is a niche device, and will likely settle to some stable tricke of market share, or disappear all together depending on whether sharp continues to update the line, which it seems thet intend to do,.
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It is a shame to see that steady decline. However, as we all know the Z is in the middle of a rebirth right now. Despite being very impressed with my dads c3000- I've not shown it to any of my friends yet because I know its potential isn't being fully exploited yet.
When I tested the first alpha of OZ 3.5.4.1 I could see its grand unveiling was not far off but of course OZ still lacks overlay/qvga and cpu scaling support. I've not got to try pdaxrom beta 4 yet as I don't think it works on the c3000 yet and it sounds like it has quite a lot of bugs at the moment. I can't believe some people are saying its slower or there is no improvement- that surely must be a bug or 4 giving that impression. The difference between the last version of pdaxrom for C3000 and 3.5.4.1 was night and day.
Within the next month or so these problems should be sorted and then i should be able to bowl my friends over by showing them a pocket sized computer that can play divx/xvid, neo geo and psx games, any audio format, has a fully featured web browser (with java and flash) and word processor, networked printing and file sharing and I also really want to see amule running on it to. The emule site says that will run in 64MB so I'm hoping amule has similar memory requirements.
If Sharp was to start shipping Z's pre-installed with one of these next-gen, 2.6 based images and they promoted its capabilities properly they probably wouldn't be able to keep up with demand.
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Damn sad to see this trendline... I wish there's a new release to nudge up the trendline some more towards the up direction again.
Zaurus Trend (http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus)
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Nice trending tool Google. One can waste a bunch of time looking at these trends. For example if you compare Zaurus with PocketPC, and look at the regions (at the bottom), you will see some interesting countries listed:
[a href=\"http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus%2C+pocketpc&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all]http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus%2C+p...eo=all&date=all[/url]
Now if you compare that to the interest (number of searches) on PDAs alone, there must be something out there filling the PDA niche since the interest still seems high for PDAs
http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus%2C+p...eo=all&date=all (http://www.google.com/trends?q=zaurus%2C+pocketpc%2C+pda&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)
I too would like to see wider acceptance of the Zaurus, but I am happy that Sharp continues to improve the product line at least in one market.
Craig...
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on my www.zaurus.org.uk I use the eXTReMe tracking system, a very nice easy to use free tracker. Anyone can see the statistics, just click on the little planet icon.
the interesting thing in this case is the "geo tracker" where it guesses the country of origin of the reader:
http://extremetracking.com/open?login=zaurus (http://extremetracking.com/open?login=zaurus)
the interesting thing is that most visitors are UK, USA, Germany or French! Also of note is that the majority use the mozilla/gecko browser and IE only accounts for 23% of the hits.
oh, and BTW, in case anyone's curious, the revenue from google ads doesn't even cover hosting costs and domain fees... and I would be more than happy to let other people publish content onto the site.
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The trend is global
http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux%2C+wi...eo=all&date=all (http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux%2C+windows%2C+mac&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all)
(except for mac)
the only thing thats really picking up is
http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all (http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all)