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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: fpp on April 10, 2010, 02:55:32 pm
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A surprise move from Sharp: the long-awaited (by some) successor to the Zaurus, a new clamshell "MID" running Android, with a beautiful 5" 960x480 screen, a Snapdragon CPU and plenty of goodies:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-i...-au-to-android/ (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-is01-snapdragon-powered-3g-mid-introduces-au-to-android/)
Engadget goes "meh", which is a pretty good omen in my book :-)
Also there will be a "developer-friendly" version dubbed DK01 where the OS is replaceable. Maybe we will see Maemo, Mer and/or Meego on it ?
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A surprise move from Sharp: the long-awaited (by some) successor to the Zaurus, a new clamshell "MID" running Android, with a beautiful 5" 960x480 screen, a Snapdragon CPU and plenty of goodies:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/s...au-to-android/ (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/s...au-to-android/)
Engadget goes "meh", which is a pretty good omen in my book :-)
Also there will be a "developer-friendly" version dubbed DK01 where the OS is replaceable. Maybe we will see Maemo, Mer and/or Meego on it ?
The link is broken. I think You mean that:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-i...-au-to-android/ (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-is01-snapdragon-powered-3g-mid-introduces-au-to-android/)
It looks nice but news does not mention about size of the ram. And that is crucial to linux.
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The link is broken. I think You mean that:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-i...-au-to-android/ (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-is01-snapdragon-powered-3g-mid-introduces-au-to-android/)
It looks nice but news does not mention about size of the ram. And that is crucial to linux.
Sorry, yes, bad cut-n-paste.
Probably this source has better details:
http://www.pocketables.net/2010/03/sharp-i...s-and-more.html (http://www.pocketables.net/2010/03/sharp-is01-gets-product-page-video-demos-and-more.html)
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Looks great!
The big questions for me is does it have an easily replaceable battery (unlike the netwalker) and usb 2 host?
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bit more here at aki'news
http://en.akihabaranews.com/41510/phone/ha...rst-android-mid (http://en.akihabaranews.com/41510/phone/hands-on-jn-dk01-and-is01-sharp-and-au-first-android-mid)
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Looks like it has a proprietary usb slot. Can anyone confirm?
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kddi is CDMA2000, but docomo now has a W-CDMA version:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/smart_phone/sh10b/ (http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/smart_phone/sh10b/)
http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/sh10b/ (http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/sh10b/)
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sharp are clearly capable of world-class hardware, too bad they seemed to have abandoned international sales and left the market to HTC
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http://www.pocketables.net/2010/10/first-i...sharp-is01.html (http://www.pocketables.net/2010/10/first-impressions-of-the-sharp-is01.html)
and it's now available from Conics for approx. $250
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I was in Japan last week and thought I was looking at this. Guess not. The one I saw was called a Lynx with model number SH-10B. It looks just like this but was upwards of $700. Would be really cool to have one though. The phone function is weird in that it will be only on speakerphone unless you have a bluetooth headset attached. Which is funny because Japanese don't like walking around with a bluetooth headset on at all.
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Sharp Lynx: http://www.slashgear.com/sharp-docomo-lynx...-month-2094711/ (http://www.slashgear.com/sharp-docomo-lynx-sh-10b-android-mid-hits-japan-this-month-2094711/)
A bit over specified for a Zaurus replacement IMHO.
Can't see myself using 1-seg or both cameras. Looks nice though.
Imagine if they made something like this but WiFi/BT only, without the 3G.
And called it "Zaurus"...
It would be awesome.
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Heh, apparently you can buy the xpphone with DOS & without 3G (though 3G + embedded XP is standard) - http://en.xpphone.com/product/specification.html (http://en.xpphone.com/product/specification.html)
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Did anyone get the Sharp IS01 and try it out first hand?
Just curious what the hands on impressions were.
UPDATE: oops, just realized this thread is over a year old... but then again, still a valid question I guess.... hopefully the IS01 was upgradable from snapdragon to latest.
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Did anyone get the Sharp IS01 and try it out first hand?
Just curious what the hands on impressions were.
UPDATE: oops, just realized this thread is over a year old... but then again, still a valid question I guess.... hopefully the IS01 was upgradable from snapdragon to latest.
I doubt you can upgrade the snapdragon processor to something else. Most, if not all mobile devices are specially designed so they can be so small. It is a system-on-a-chip anyway.
I took a look at it while I was in Japan last year. It didn't really impress me that much. One cool thing is it IS a phone provided you use a bluetooth headset. I still want a larger screen if I am going to have a clamshell portable.