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Originally Posted by biketool View Post
Cute, it might be interesting to see a video about it, or even handle and play with one.
Probably like the old dev edition SL-5000 Zaurus which had half the memory 32mb vs the 64mb of the production SL-5500. I survived the early to mid 2000s with one in my pocket and a Nokia 6600 over IR link some sweet GSM data. What I like is prototypes where they are actually better say with 4x the memory or a machined titanium body.
I still would like to see the rumored black coated Ti and sapphire Vertu prototype which ran Maemo5; before of course Vertu and sort of Nokia went away.
You wound not belive what I accomplished with that run of Zauri before I upgraded to the N900.
GNU-Linux in your pocket is great, and a hardware keyboard!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
The N900 replaced my Zaurus SL-5500 (with a CF Wifi goiter), a cheap pocket video camera, a compact digital point-and-shoot camera, my Sony Ericsson K550 phone, my palm pilot and my EEE PC. Somewhere on this site I posted a picture of this collection of devices obsoleted by the N900, many of which still powered up!
 

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