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Re: [PLUG] Zaurus SL5000D - Linux PDA
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yes, it has a stylus.
keyboad is suprisingly easy to use - and is available anytime it's needed
(just slides out). there is also trainable handwriting recognition, and a
pickboard that tries to help you guess what you are writing.
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:10 am, you wrote:
> At 09:28 AM 2/19/2002 -0500, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
> >On Tuesday 19 February 2002 09:17 am, Arthur S. Alexion wrote about [PLUG]
> >
> >Zaurus SL5000D - Linux PDA:
> > > Has anyone had a chance to check out this PDA running embedded linux?
> > > I think it is a Sharp hardware, Trolltech OS thing.
> > >
> > > Blackberry-like keyboard, little trackball, OK & Cancel buttons.
> > >
> > > Looks nice on paper. Has anyone tried it?
> >
> >it is okay to use, but is randomly responsive
> >basicly think WinCE jordania or Ipaq with a keyboard.
>
> I was wondering -- ergonomically speaking -- whether it had a stylus and
> whether switch in back and forth between having to use the stylus to
> perform "mouse functions" and the keyboard for entering text was a pain in
> your hand (which isn't a desk).
>
> >eats batteries like popcorn, but if you have the cash it is a great toy
> >sharp has had a long history of great PDAs that never take off, so maby
> > this will be there chance. i doubt it since Palm is comming out with
> > there new OS in the spring that can do all this, plus run your old palm
> > software...
>
> The review I read said that it ran GCC Linux compiled programs (but didn't
> give any examples). Is this true? Is it useful?
>
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