Sl-c3200?

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Ironically, Judie from the Gadgeteer put up a review of HTC Universal. Which is exactly where my next upgrade will be. I put off upgrading until the 3200 was concrete. Instead of concrete, it just looks like a concrete brick to me.
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There's been a lot of discussion about the HTC uni on www.clieplanet.co.uk over the last few months - the reviewer took his back as he said it was not stable enough to be usable - many reboots every day required just to make it work!

A colleague has a Dell Axim 51 with WM5 and it's utter shite... no, really... many 3rd party s/w is not 100% compatible, or simply crashes it. Things go haywire and the wifi will stop working properly - indicates connected with good signal but can't actually transfer traffic. Beautiful hardware, the OS really lets it down. In fact, Microsoft themselves have an advisory that people with WM2003 should NOT upgrade to WM5 for the time being!

So, if I did get a Universal, WM5 would merely be a glorified linux boot loader!

[speculatrix]

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
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AlbertR, can I just ask two questions?
- Why didn't you buy the WML-C19 module instead of using the guts from a USB bluetooth dongle?
- If you took a C3x00 and replaced the microdrive with a CF card, would there be room to solder in the bluetooth module onto the pads? Maybe you could do a bodge with a CF extender/ribbon to make more room? That is, can we build a C3x00 *with* bluetooth built in?

thanks!
Paul

[albertr]

1. I'm not a big fan of Mitsumi WML-C19 module at the first place, especially since it requires a separate antenna. I'm not sure if soldered to PCB it won't block my internal wi-fi dongle, I didn't even try to contenplay using this module.
2. I don't own a C3x00, so not sure if it would be sufficient space inside. I would say that if all you need is just the extra space for flying leads, it's up to you how thin/thick to make them. The easiest way would be to open up you Z and try it out. There's one extra hardware step requires in order to use BTUART lines, I'll try to update http://www.iral.com/~albertr/linux/zaurus/wireless with more info when I get a chance.
-albertr