Sl-c3200?

[chyang]

In fact, big increase
C3000->C3100, it only added 112MB flash, while
C3100->C3200, it added 2GB storage. lol

[speculatrix]

reading the email summary of this thread, for a brief moment, I hoped that they added lots more flash memory, rather than just fit the latest microdrive.

I think this partly marketing exercise, and partly an act of necessity in that the 4GB microdrives are somewhat obsolete and therefore Sharp are probably able to buy the 6GB ones more easily.

As someone said, good news that Sharp are still active in producing the Z, bad news that they are "resting on their laurels". AlbertR has proved that adding a bluetooth module would be TRIVIAL for Sharp - he deserves a couple of 1000 US$ consultancy from them for his work - and yet Sharp don't care.

If it weren't for the lack of an alternative, I'd be happy to see Sharp's PDA division go tits-up over their uselessness. If money were no object I'd be a Flybook or equivalent mini-laptop owner.

[albertr]

Sharp has designed the PXA270-based Zaurii to be expandable. There're soldering pads on the pcb to add more flash memory and Mitsumi WML-C19 bluetooth module amoung other things. So, it HAS BEEN designed for this in mind. I guess Sharp just doesn't see any need for it in current Japanese market.
-albertr

[albertr]

he deserves a couple of 1000 US$ consultancy from them for his work

Any donations are welcome

Seriously,  my take on SL-3200 release is that it's good news that Sharp still makes Zaurii and not abandoning this market.

-albertr

[Raul]

I thought that today isn't 1st of April.  

Sharp has designed the PXA270-based Zaurii to be expandable. There're soldering pads on the pcb to add more flash memory and Mitsumi WML-C19 bluetooth module amoung other things. So, it HAS BEEN designed for this in mind. I guess Sharp just doesn't see any need for it in current Japanese market.
-albertr

I've heard that you are a kind of magician  
Maybe you could open a company and make mod's to Zauruses. Bluetooth module inside my sooon-to-arrive Zaurus would be my wish come true
And that what you are doing is more encouraging than what Sharp is doing.
Thanks a lot

Kind regards,
Raul

[datajerk]

I just checked the HTC specs again.  It's a bit longer, but not as deep.  Has BT, WiFi, 640x480, 520Mhz proc.  I have seen Opie and GPE screen shots.  It also has 1.3mp camera and its a phone.  Keyboard, rotating screen.  

It is lacking CF.  I cannot use my 4GB Microdrives for movies, but it does have SD.  4GB SD cards < $200.

IMHO, the HTC Universal is what the Zaurus should have been given its 3 year head start.

I waited a year for the next Z.  What a letdown.

I'll stick with my c860, and watch the Linux progress of the HTC.  I can dump my phone with this device.  Given the phone is GSM/WCDMA + BT/WiFi this may represent the anti-Zaurus.  i.e. a device that will work everywhere but Japan (and perhaps Korea).

[mandjab]

Oh Surprise!!! sharp made a new dictionary, the SL-C3200.   pfffff !!!  

[Jon_J]

Sorry for OT, but does anyone at Sharp read this board?
If not daily, but just occasionlly?

[speculatrix]

Sharp has designed the PXA270-based Zaurii to be expandable. There're soldering pads on the pcb to add more flash memory and Mitsumi WML-C19 bluetooth module amoung other things. So, it HAS BEEN designed for this in mind. I guess Sharp just doesn't see any need for it in current Japanese market.
-albertr
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Whoa! Now, I know the SL-6000x was designed for lots of variants (flash, ram, with/without bluetooth, with/without wifi), and it's possible to buy the WML bluetooth modules from [a href=\"http://segor.de]http://segor.de[/url]

BUT

this is the first time that I heard the SL-C1000/3x00 zauruses had solder pads for a bluetooth module! So, you mean to say, "all" I need to do is buy an SL-C3200, get a WML-C19 module and "just" solder it in? I must have been asleep to have missed that!

Or am I missing something?

[speculatrix]

IMHO, the HTC Universal is what the Zaurus should have been given its 3 year head start.
I waited a year for the next Z.  What a letdown.
I'll stick with my c860, and watch the Linux progress of the HTC.  I can dump my phone with this device.  Given the phone is GSM/WCDMA + BT/WiFi this may represent the anti-Zaurus.  i.e. a device that will work everywhere but Japan (and perhaps Korea).
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I'm in the same queue... as soon as linux on the HTC uni will do everything I can do with the Zaurus (it's 75% of the way there - i.e. have working usb, keyboard, display, SD, wifi and bluetooth) I'll be there... assuming I can sell my granny to buy one, they're typically US$800 or EU750 off-contract.

[Tomoe]

I waited a year for the next Z.  What a letdown.

Indeed, my fine sir.

I'll stick with my c860, and watch the Linux progress of the HTC.  I can dump my phone with this device.  Given the phone is GSM/WCDMA + BT/WiFi this may represent the anti-Zaurus.  i.e. a device that will work everywhere but Japan (and perhaps Korea).
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HTC Universal works in Japan too, and DoCoMo will put it on Jap market in the second half of this year (that was mostly caused by teh huge success of this Sharp's Windows
pda/phone that we were bashing, so at least it did SOMETHING). If the price will be decent, I'll be getting one. Frankly, I'm sick of all this Sharp bull, with just a couple minor cheap changes/addons it could be such a wonderful platform, and it's still crippled.
How long has it been since C760 came out, and what has changed since then? We got USB host and a HD. Wow! HTC Universal is a superior hardware platform and only thing where zaurus wins is that the userbase Linux OS distributions are more mature (I never found Zaurus' default rom to be much better than Win, it's too crippled).  But that will soon change.

Well gents, sorry for making you read through this rant, I had to vent a bit, I really hoped that the change will be more substantial than it was the last time. As I said, I will probably be going with HTC Universal or whatever DoCoMo will call it (anyone has any new info on that?) but I will keep my Zaurus, because I've been a devout Zauruser for a long time. It just won't have the status of 'something to carry with you at all times' anymore.

All that being said, I think, just like others mentioned, that it's good that Sharp is at least still making and 'developing' them, and that it will bring some other good things.
If nothing else, price of C3100 should go down, at least here in Japan.

[albertr]

this is the first time that I heard the SL-C1000/3x00 zauruses had solder pads for a bluetooth module! So, you mean to say, "all" I need to do is buy an SL-C3200, get a WML-C19 module and "just" solder it in? I must have been asleep to have missed that!

Or am I missing something?

The soldering pads are located under microdrive, so yes - you can do it, but microdrive has to go, Otherwise you have to use flying leads and re-locate the BT module elsewhere.
-albertr

[rebski]

See Akihabara News
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-11303...-C3200+%21.html

quote
"So yet another disappointing release by Sharp, that see their pocket computers, release after release, transformed more and more into an oversized dictionary."

Harsh, but they have a point.

[andresgriego]

Hmm, I'm happy to hear they didn't upgrade this version too much. I just bought an SL-C3100 less than a month ago.

There are no new processors for us, nor are there cheap screens to replace the mass-marketed 640x480. If anything, we might have had built in wireless.

I would like to see a reduction in the power requirements for a Z, and OLEDs are the ticket. No need for a backlight.

[bluedevils]

I would like all the current capabilities or more in a smaller package (sl-c7x0 with small battery).