New Zaurus announced

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Fri Nov 19 23:32:17 UTC 1999


Yoshiki --

This is very cool! (Same memory and same processor speed?)

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:53 PM -0800 11/19/99, ohshima at is.titech.ac.jp wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  SHARP announced new version of Zaurus PDA yesterday.  The
>biggest different from ICRUISE is its LCD: it has 320x240
>color reflective LCD (they call it "New Super Mobile LCD").
>
>  Although the resolution is smaller than ICRUISE, in a
>sense it might be much more practical platform for Squeak.
>It is much smaller, longer battery duration, and outdoor use
>ready.
>
>  They say that the contrast of the screen is doubled from
>their previous reflective LCD (aka "Super Mobile LCD"),
>which is used MI-310 and Business Zaurus.  It sounds realy
>cool.  (though, I wonder how they will name the next
>generation reflective LCD.)
>
>  The much more important thing might be that it is much
>cheaper and it is more likely that it will be accepted by
>the Zaurus users in Japan. (Note that Zaurus enjoyed
>more than 60% market share until a year before and it is
>still the best-sell PDA in Japan).
>
>  Imagine a killer app written in Squeak on the small device
>is used by more than 400,000 peole... even they might not
>aware the application is written in Squeak:-)
>
>  -- Yoshiki





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