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Sharp Hones Linux PDA
News Sharp Electronics, known for its Zaurus line of digital organisers, is to introduce a Linux- and Java-based PDA (personal digital assistant) for developers in November, the company said on Thursday. But Sharp looks likely to be the first major...
[October 19, 2001, 12:25]
Sharp Plans Linux PDA
News Compaq is also doing experimental work porting Linux to the iPaq and Mui suggested that if Sharp's PDA is a big success this could help Linux onto other handheld devices. IDC Research analyst Tim Mui said that for this reason, Sharp's PDA is likely...
[March 5, 2001, 15:50]
Sharp's Zaurus PDA Loves Linux
News According to reports, the Zaurus PDA from electronics giant Sharp, can now run Linux software thanks to zxLinux software from Axe. The reports suggest Sharp will add more applications for Zaurus as Linux programmers start using the Linux...
[April 20, 2000, 14:29]
Sharp Aims Linux-based PDA At UK Corporations
News When people buy a PDA, they don't care which operating system it uses, as long as it does what they need it to do," Klein said. The major challenge Sharp Electronics will face in introducing its new Linux-based handheld computer is spurring...
[April 17, 2002, 16:05]
Sharp Shows Off Clamshell Linux PDA
News The screen can be opened up to expose a laptop-style QWERTY keyboard, or twisted around and folded back for displaying data after the fashion of a portrait-mode PDA. The SL-C700, to be sold in Japan from 14 December, is Sharp's latest handheld...
[November 20, 2002, 15:38]
Sharp Picks Lineo's Linux For New PDA
News Now, though, the economic slowdown has hammered Palm; once-scarce PDA models are overabundant, and handhelds are approaching the same commodity status that has shriveled profit margins for PCs and cell phones.
[June 1, 2001, 8:43]
Sharp Ships Linux PDA
News Sharp Electronics is shipping a Linux handheld, giving that niche market its first major device manufacturer. Sharp, which has been selling a Zaurus in Japan that uses the company's own operating system, plans to transition its handhelds there to...
[April 4, 2002, 9:22]
Sharp Unleashes Linux Handheld
News As previously reported, Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 handheld uses Lineo's version of Linux, is powered by Intel's 206MHz StrongARM processor, and has both CompactFlash and Secure Digital expansion slots. Sharp, which has been selling a Zaurus in Japan...
[December 4, 2001, 8:58]
Linux PDA UK Launch Date Set
News Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA is due to go on sale in the UK at the end of April. The PDA will be the first from a major manufacturer to run the Linux operating system as standard, and the first Linux-based PDA generally available in the UK.
[March 20, 2002, 15:43]
IBM Plans More Linux-powered PDAs
News Though Sharp uses Linux in its Zaurus PDA, the operating system still is not as popular as the Palm OS, which is the most widely used PDA operating system on the market, according to figures from research firms IDC and Gartner.
[January 22, 2003, 7:38]
Security Hole Discovered In Linux Handheld
News The Embedix Plus PDA OS is built around the Linux kernel. Sharp is using a modified version of Lineo's Embedix Plus PDA OS in its Zaurus handheld device. Sharp's Linux-based handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private...
[July 12, 2002, 8:42]
News Schmooze: Budgeting For E-business
News Sharp is getting back in on the PDA action, but has decided in typical idiosyncratic fashion to place its bets on Linux rather than Palm OS or Pocket PC. Sharp aims Linux-based PDA at UK corporations It might work better if Microsoft can figure out...
[April 19, 2002, 17:01]
Linux Carves Niche In PDA Market
News With a list price of $499, the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 is at the higher end of the PDA market. TechRepublic members Adrian Kunzle, atechnology vice president with a private banking firm, and Mike Gilger, CTO of Identitech, were early adopters of Sharp...
[June 11, 2002, 12:34]
Yopy Comes To Europe
News Since then, Yopy has ceded the handheld Linux spotlight to the high-profile Zaurus SL-5500, Sharp's bid to re-enter the US PDA market. Having survived a tumultuous development and rollout process, Yopy, which was arguably the first Linux PDA, has...
[July 12, 2002, 14:36]
Zaurus Goes Online, But Not In UK
News Treo, BlackBerry and the Symbian OS devices are available in the UK, along with Pogo, a consumer-oriented wireless PDA/mobile phone from a British start-up. The mobile phone makers who partly own Symbian have an edge on other PDA companies because...
[April 9, 2002, 16:52]
Royal Announces Low-cost Linux PDA
News Other companies have announced plans for a Linux PDA, notably Sharp, but they aim for the high end of the market. Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became...
[January 10, 2002, 17:01]
Opera Refuses To Perform On Microsoft Smartphone
News Opera's mobile browser, which is currently available on the Sony Ericsson P800 -- a smartphone based on the Symbian operating system -- and on the Linux-powered Sharp Zaurus PDA, uses a rendering technique that stacks the elements of a Web page...
[February 24, 2003, 7:51]
Yopy Survives Death Rumours
News Linux fans were saddened to learn of the death of Yopy, the long-awaited Linux-based PDA, earlier this week. A representative of Samsung, developer G.Mate's partner in the project, told CNET News.com at this week's Consumer Electonics Show in Las...
[January 11, 2002, 17:15]
Qtopia To Power IBM Linux PDA Design
News IBM will use the Qtopia software in a PDA (personal digital assistant) blueprint along with its own PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista Software's version of the Linux operating system, Trolltech said earlier this week.
[February 14, 2003, 14:12]
Linux Set For Central Role In 3G Devices
News Back in April chip-designer ARM signed a deal to bring embedded Linux to its processors, while Lineo's version of embedded Linux has found favour with Sharp's PDA designers. Linux could soon be playing an important role in the third-generation...
[October 10, 2001, 16:16]
