IT-Analysis: LINUX 2 Sharp for Mobile Landscape

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"As smart phones blur with PDAs, and PDAs in turn blur with laptops, what's a Tablet?

"Sharp Corporation has introduced two new models to add to their Zaurus Linux based organisers. In reality the SL-C750 and SL-C760 are just two versions of the same unit, differing only in on-board memory, battery life and weight.

"This unit is somewhat different to the earlier units in that it uses the 'clamshell' form factor, famously used by several generations of Psion organisers, and a couple of products elsewhere. This provides a full 640 x 480 VGA landscape-oriented screen, and the extra width allows a mini keyboard on the lower half like a laptop. However, you can also twist the screen, close the clamshell and use it in portrait orientation like a PDA..."

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