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Sharp Is01: The Zaurus Is Back, Sort Of...
« on: April 10, 2010, 02:55:32 pm »
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/

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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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2010, 08:43:37 pm »
Quote from: fpp
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/

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/
It looks nice but news does not mention about size of the ram. And that is crucial to linux.

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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2010, 09:16:21 am »
Quote from: ptoki
The link is broken. I think You mean that:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/sharp-i...-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

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« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2010, 02:35:09 pm »
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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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2010, 05:18:37 pm »
Gemini 4G/Wi-Fi owner, formerly zaurus C3100 and 860 owner; also owner of an HTC Doubleshot, a Zaurus-like phone.

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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2010, 03:30:29 am »
Looks like it has a proprietary usb slot. Can anyone confirm?
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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2010, 09:22:52 am »
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2010, 04:03:43 pm »
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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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2010, 03:34:33 pm »
http://www.pocketables.net/2010/10/first-i...sharp-is01.html
and it's now available from Conics for approx. $250

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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2010, 04:14:38 pm »
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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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2010, 06:56:52 pm »
Sharp Lynx: http://www.slashgear.com/sharp-docomo-lynx...-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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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2010, 09:18:35 pm »
Heh, apparently you can buy the xpphone with DOS & without 3G (though 3G + embedded XP is standard) - http://en.xpphone.com/product/specification.html

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« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2011, 09:30:05 pm »
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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« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2011, 09:45:08 pm »
Quote from: Omicron
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.
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