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Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: speculatrix on February 19, 2007, 07:10:11 am
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13316...+HSDPA+PDA.html (http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13316-EM+ONE%2C+the+EM+Mobile+HSDPA+PDA.html)

"EM Mobile is the first one ahead with their EM ONE, a Sharp PDA with Windows Mobile 5 (what a shame, Windows Mobile 6 is already available), a removable keyboard, a 1.3Mpix camera, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 1.2, a 4.1” screen (800x480), a 520MHz PXA CPU, a NVidia GoForceTM5500 chipset, and a data only HSDPA connection (several are flat fee). Even if the product seems to shine and sparkle, I also see far too many drawbacks:"


so, I think a smartphone of this type clearly shows the new direction Sharp have gone in, and the Zaurus/linux line is truly over, sniff.

still, it gives another challenge to the run-linux-on-everything people once the HTC universal runs linux fully!
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: jeana on February 19, 2007, 10:00:00 am
Incredible   , they put the Reset button directly on the keyboard.
=> May be its mandatory for Windows Mobile  
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: Ling on February 19, 2007, 10:11:20 am
How about giving Zdevil the props and combining all of these into one thread:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301)
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: speculatrix on February 19, 2007, 10:34:58 am
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How about giving Zdevil the props and combining all of these into one thread:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301)
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ah, I didn't see that thread. I looked for one, but I must have missed it - there must be hundreds of zaurus successor/replacement/change/new variant threads.
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: nilch on February 19, 2007, 11:07:53 am
The only new novelty that I can find (Kudos to Sharp for still having some design chops that they started with the Zaurus) is the Dual Sliding thingie on a smartphone.

(or maybe I have missed any such earlier devices)

Here are some nice photos of the dual sliding action.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharps-em-o...nd-wifi/162942/ (http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharps-em-one-a-dual-sliding-pocketpc-with-hsdpa-and-wifi/162942/)


(So sharp really did ditch the Zaurus line in favour of the Pocket PC platform based PDA/Smartphone combo)
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: Ling on February 19, 2007, 12:15:59 pm
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How about giving Zdevil the props and combining all of these into one thread:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23301)
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=154665\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

ah, I didn't see that thread. I looked for one, but I must have missed it - there must be hundreds of zaurus successor/replacement/change/new variant threads.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=154669\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

...he tries, but they just won't read and stop posting... heads out to the woods to shoot himself in the head.
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: nilch on February 19, 2007, 12:47:27 pm
Haha .. I just thought this thread was better titled than ZDevil's rather short title.
But not to take away from ZDevil's first post and nicely graphic-ed one at that.

Where are the admins - lets roll all three threads into one.
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: ralphrmartin on February 19, 2007, 03:16:27 pm
My student has a Windows Mobile 5 device (clamshell thingy a bit like a Zaurus, with rounded ends - you can figure out which one I mean, but no names), and it is so awful in terms of instability of software that he has offered to swap it for a vanilla phone I bought for 30 quid on ebay.

I think I will be giving this em mobile a miss.

Does no vendor see the point in a decent clamshell any more?
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: Da_Blitz on February 20, 2007, 05:16:12 am
there is 4 phone OS's on the market and only one can advertise "crasihng" as a feature

as i found out several times today, it also eats sms messages like a dog eats homework
Title: Sharp's Em One (w-zero3 Successor?)
Post by: speculatrix on February 20, 2007, 05:33:58 am
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