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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]
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. Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 will contain most of the features that PDA owners are used to, but is distinct in that it has a miniature built-in keyboard.
[March 20, 2002, 15:43]
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. The Zaurus SL-5000D developer unit will launch...
[October 19, 2001, 12:25]
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]
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 Sharp is using a modified version of Lineo's Embedix Plus PDA OS in its Zaurus handheld device. In an advisory posted recently to a Syracuse University computer-science Web site, researchers said they had found vulnerabilities in Sharp's Zaurus SL...
[July 12, 2002, 8:42]
Sun To Sell Zaurus At JavaOne
News Sun Microsystems will be selling the long-awaited Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based handheld computer at the JavaOne developer conference beginning on Monday in New York, as a publicity exercise and to raise awareness of the proliferation of Java in...
[March 22, 2002, 18:04]
Zaurus Goes Online, But Not In UK
News Sharp Electronics has launched a wireless Internet service for its Zaurus SL-5500 in the US, offering unlimited access to email and the Web, but the service won't be coming to Europe any time soon. Unlike BlackBerry, however, the Zaurus cannot yet...
[April 9, 2002, 16:52]
News Schmooze: Budgeting For E-business
News There are plenty of Linux developers around, but so far only a handful of applications for the new Zaurus. 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...
[April 19, 2002, 17:01]
A PDA With Power Performance And Style - But Can You Handle The Linux Flavour?
Member Review The Zaurus is larger, but it's really an average sized PDA, while the UX is amazingly small. The keyboard on the Zaurus is better, though the keys on the UX light up which is handy for those who type in dark environments.
[March 11, 2004, 22:04]
Sharp Plans Linux PDA
News Sharp has seen relatively little success overseas using its own proprietary operating system Zaurus. 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...
[March 5, 2001, 15:50]
Java Phones Take Centre Stage At JavaOne
News A big draw could be a discounted Zaurus Linux/Java PDA. Sun to sell Zaurus at JavaOne STREAMED VIDEO Java wrapped into Sony Ericsson's new mobile phone The P800 Java mobile phone combines a digital camera, organiser and phone into one device
[March 26, 2002, 12:50]
Sun Brews Fresh Java For Mobile Devices
News Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 PDA is the best-known example of Linux running on StrongARM. Sun has released the reference implementation of Personal Profile, and developers creating for the Linux operating system on Intel's StrongARM processors will soon...
[September 26, 2002, 11:54]
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]
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]
Qtopia To Power IBM Linux PDA Design
News Qtopia's most high-profile success to date is its use in Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus SL-5500 and SL-A300 handhelds, but it is also used in other PDAs and devices. IBM will use the Qtopia software in a PDA (personal digital assistant) blueprint along...
[February 14, 2003, 14:12]
Sharp Picks Lineo's Linux For New PDA
News Sharp originally announced at the CeBit trade show in Germany that it planned to use the Linux operating system to power a new version of its Zaurus personal digital assistant. A Lineo representative said Sharp will use Lineo's Embedix version of...
[June 1, 2001, 8:43]
Sharp Aims Linux-based PDA At UK Corporations
News The Zaurus, launched in the US earlier this month, is the first Linux-based handheld from a major manufacturer. The major advantage of a Linux-based handheld would be the cost savings in the overall price point of the device, and the price of the...
[April 17, 2002, 16:05]
Sharp Shows Off Clamshell Linux PDA
News Sharp has introduced a new model of its Zaurus handheld computer, sporting a VGA-resolution display, QWERTY keyboard that can be folded away behind the device, and a screen that displays in both portrait and landscape modes.
[November 20, 2002, 15:38]
Sharp Ships Linux PDA
News The major advantage of a Linux-based handheld would be the cost savings in the overall price point of the device, and the price of the Zaurus isn't appealing enough to make companies want to choose a Linux device over devices based on the two big...
[April 4, 2002, 9:22]
