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« on: May 12, 2004, 03:41:16 pm »
I\'m curious about how well the Zaurus is doing in Japan since Sharp seems to put its best foot forward there as opposed to the U.S.

I\'m also curious as to how the Japanese use the Zaurus in comparison to say, a palm or pocket pc. For example, what applications do they use and do they use the Zaurus for wifi, etc.
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2004, 03:48:40 pm »
Yes, some insight from someone like stubear who lives in japan would be cool
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2004, 04:45:50 pm »
A japanese resident on a French Zaurus forum reported today that rumors of a new clamshell Z were afloat on the japanese boards.

He doesn\'t usually forward such gossip but he felt this one had merit, with a possible annoucement forthcoming.

The new Z would resemble a C860 with faster CPU, integrated Wifi, and a four-way jog-button at the back.

YMMV
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2004, 04:55:35 pm »
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I\'m curious about how well the Zaurus is doing in Japan since Sharp seems to put its best foot forward there as opposed to the U.S.

I\'m also curious as to how the Japanese use the Zaurus in comparison to say, a palm or pocket pc. For example, what applications do they use and do they use the Zaurus for wifi, etc.


The Z is a major player in the PDA market in Japan, I\'ve friends out there and who travel to/from regularly, they\'ve been established as a brand for almost a decade, albeit they started as personal organisers (I had one briefly), they evolved into colour machines and into a form factor similar to 5x00 machines before adopting Linux as the OS. I even came across a site in Japan a while back which specialised in doing custom artwork on the cases, a friend says they\'ve a bit of a cult following evidently. He works with people who still have pre-linux machines.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2004, 04:59:10 pm »
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The new Z would resemble a C860 with faster CPU, integrated Wifi, and a four-way jog-button at the back.


Augh! Don\'t tell me these things!
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2004, 05:04:33 pm »
What about bluetooth and a USB host?
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2004, 05:07:50 pm »
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A japanese resident on a French Zaurus forum reported today that rumors of a new clamshell Z were afloat on the japanese boards.

He doesn\'t usually forward such gossip but he felt this one had merit, with a possible annoucement forthcoming.

The new Z would resemble a C860 with faster CPU, integrated Wifi, and a four-way jog-button at the back.

YMMV


Never mind how much! Where can I get one NOW!!!! <Big dopey drooling GRIN>

Is there a 12 Step group for Clamshell Zaurii-holics? Zaur-anon? I think that I\'m gonna need one <sigh>. \"Hi. My name is Bob and I collect new C-series Zaurii .....\"


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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2004, 05:14:22 pm »
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Never mind how much! Where can I get one NOW!!!! <Big dopey drooling GRIN>
Is there a 12 Step group for Clamshell Zaurii-holics? Zaur-anon? I think that I\'m gonna need one <sigh>. \"Hi. My name is Bob and I collect new C-series Zaurii .....\"


I guess we\'re all beyond help

For some mysterious reason, France is probably the largest european grey market  for the clamshell Z\'s, and we\'re just as bad : mean ownership time of a given model by members is a handful of months (if not weeks), and even so you can\'t get your hands on a used one
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2004, 05:15:48 pm »
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What about bluetooth and a USB host?


Sorry, I shared all I \"knew\"... Now we need a japanese-savvy reader to go investigate those forums
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2004, 05:33:47 pm »
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The new Z would resemble a C860 with faster CPU, integrated Wifi, and a four-way jog-button at the back.


Augh! Don\'t tell me these things!


No kidding!  I\'ve been waiting and waiting to buy, pulled the trigger and my C860 just shipped today.......then I read this.  Next thing you know Apple will release a Newton replacement.
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2004, 06:34:43 pm »
Do we have any members of the Zaurus community who can hang out in the Japanese Zaurus forums. We need intel!!
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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2004, 07:07:31 pm »
I don\'t know Japanese, but I\'m as handy as anyone with machine translation.    What are the \"good\" sites?  Post some links!
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2004, 09:47:26 pm »
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Next thing you know Apple will release a Newton replacement.


I think it\'s called the \"iPod\".  

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« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2004, 03:54:39 am »
This morning\'s news: logically enough, it sounds like it\'ll be the C960.
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« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2004, 04:13:15 am »
The c960 was mentioned in the same thread that first mentioned the 6000 on the old dev board.  But nobody has come up with much more than a model number so far.

It is indeed exciting news as I\'ve just received a £400 tax refund which is about to be deposited this afternoon  
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