Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000

By Jim on October 18th, 2004

I hope I get to play with one of these babies.

The newest Zaurus from Sharp has risen with some nice new features, including a built-in 1-inch 4GB drive and the standard 128MB of RAM. It also features some new interface tweaks like a control pad that replaces the previous arrow keys. With all this new stuff and the new moving parts, Sharp is claiming a decent 7 hours of battery time for the SL-C3000, down from about 8 hours for the SL-C860. Other niceties include the ability to operate as a USB drive, SD and CF slots, irDA, and media playback of MP3, WMA, and MPEG-4 video files.

Looks like a VERY cool PDA. I love the folding screen and the built-in keyboard. But I wonder what the batter life is like with that hard disk built-in? Still, 4GB of storage is nothing to sneeze at! :shock:

I would love it if a Linux based PDA could run Avantgo, I use Avantgo for news on my Pocket PC and it’s one of the reasons moving to a Linux PDA would be hard for me. I’m a news junkie so no Avantgo means no news and that would stink. :cry:

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