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Techworld: Sharp Piles Linux PDA with Features

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 15, 2004

“Sharp has added a hard-disk drive to its latest Zaurus PDA, and
is now considering selling the Linux-based device abroad.

“The SL-C3000 PDA contains a 4GB hard-disk drive from HGST–
about 30 times bigger than its previous PDA model, the SL-C860,
which had 128MB of Flash memory.

“‘We wanted to put in a hard disk before, but they were too big
and too heavy,’ said Hirohide Nakagawa, group general manager of
Sharp’s information and communication systems business
group…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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