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Q. What do you call a Zaurus on steroids? A. Archos AV500
« on: April 05, 2004, 05:33:47 pm »
This may be worth a serious look for you video loving Zaurites who love the open OS of the Z.

http://www.brighthand.com/article/Archos_A...ne_PDA_with_PVP
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Q. What do you call a Zaurus on steroids? A. Archos AV500
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2004, 05:43:06 pm »
Looks good, I noticed they said the Z is made by Sony :-)

\" The Qtopia environment is an icon-based graphical user interface for handhelds. It is used by a good number of Linux models, including Sony\'s Zaurus line. It is bundled with a suite of PIM software that can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook. \"
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Q. What do you call a Zaurus on steroids? A. Archos AV500
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2004, 05:51:18 pm »
Looks nice.
I wonder what the front end is for the video player.

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Q. What do you call a Zaurus on steroids? A. Archos AV500
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2004, 05:56:03 pm »
please post in the appropriate forums... this was moved to the off topic forum
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Q. What do you call a Zaurus on steroids? A. Archos AV500
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2004, 11:57:18 am »
now we are getting a lot of Qtopia based devices - including now a dedicated video player. Thats a good thing for qtopia developers.

Also noteworthy - it will have a USB host feature and of ocurse the juice 20GH harddisk.

Makes me wonder if we can then port PDAXROM to this device, what with the hard disk space now avalable and the higher resolution screens too, apart from ofcourse the normal Qtopia based ROM\'s.

It looks to be indeed a Zaurus on steroids - only is the hardware as good as Sharp\'s ???
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