vaio U is cool, now I've seen it I want it, not sure about the DC out
connector though it says it is for biotechnology related products -
maybe their aibo are going to get more realistic ...
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 15:30, mocm@metzlerbros.de wrote:
> ljp writes:
> > On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:54 am, kevin mulholland wrote:
> > > I noticed in a magazine (T3 in UK) that Sharp Japan are release a
> > > zaurus with a built-in camera - very nifty - not sure on the resolution
> > > though
> >
> > Actually, the Zaurus has been available in Japan for a number of years, that
> > uses a proprietary Os. and I hear sold quite well.
> >
> > That said, it seems Sharp Japan keeps all the really cool stuff (built in
> > camera) for themselves.
> >
>
> AFAIK, the Japanese Zaurus series is quite different from the one they
> sell in the US and Europe. I got myself a Zaurus PDA in Japan a couple of
> years ago, mainly for the Kanji recognition and the dictionary. They
> had color displays, built in modem, camera crads and everything when
> we just got the first version of the Palm. There even was some rumor
> about a linux for those Zaurus, but I never found the web
> pages. Anyway, I think they had an SH3 processor at that time.
> The new Zaurus in Japan looks just like the US and European versions,
> but I think they have a different OS and maybe even a different CPU
> and probably that cool Kanji handwriting recognition.
> For the latest stuff in Japan, look at
> http://direct.laox.co.jp/ec/EcTRMC.dll?FUNC=GEN_INDEX01
> If you can't read Japanese click on PDA on the left frame and than
> SHRAP (yes they mispelled it). This may be easier to understand than
> sharps Japanese homepage www.sharp.co.uk and you get the street prices
> as well. (1$ = 123 yen , 1 Euro = 115.4 yen)
>
>
> Marcus
>
> PS: The coolest is of course the new U1 Notebook from Sony
> (http://shop.conics.net/sony-vu/)
-- Kevin Mulholland Principal Systems Engineer Siemens Metering Ltd desk 00 44 161 688 3464 mobile 00 44 780882 5979 --Received on Thu May 30 16:14:02 2002
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