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Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

Tensor — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:36:45 EST

dream_catcher: it uses Windows Mobile 5, so it could, in theory, be reflashed to english. Maybe even WM 6.0 ("Crossbow") as it is close to its release AFAIK.

The REAL problem, as you said, is PHS. The article fails to mention any GSM bands it supports, so my guess is we're screwed.

Otherwise i want one now, USD 450 for this is SOO cheap.

Tensor

Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

dream_catcher — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:01:26 EDT

Everyone wants this new model but most of us want English OS. Nice to have but useless if can't read Japanese to take advantage of all the features and benefits. Secondly, I believe it runs on PHS frequency and you can use it only in 3 location. Two of them being Taiwan and Japan... I forgot the other one.

I'd wait for English OS to come out.

dream_catcher

Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

Hadrian — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:17:23 EDT

I wonder if this will have any effect on Sharp's Zaurus line. A Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 with built-in phone would be a Jasjar killer for sure.

Hadrian

Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

VinceDee — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:51:20 EDT

mmm, *drool*, now this is a device I could like. I know many people think that PDAs are a dying breed, but I don't agree. I have a HP 4700 ipaq (which I consider to be the pinnacle of PDAs, so far) and there are many programs that I use on it that would be miserable or impossible to even try to use on a cellphone. The Sharp W-ZERO3 appears to have everything the ipaq has, but adds a qwerty keyboard and camera...nice.

VinceDee

Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

TheZodiac — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:45:32 EDT

Holy AfroBeehives!Ã¢Â„Â¢ Yep, Perma, it does look like the Wiz... which isnt a pad thing - I think this is the form factor to beat.. even though the Universal is bigger swively'er and all that.. I think its to large. These are a good size, I think. next up.. HTC MERLIN! Or something...

TheZodiac

Sharp's W-ZERO3 PDA Phone

Permanent4 — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:06:03 EDT

Looks like an HTC Wizard/Apache clone. It might be cool to get one of those in black, though, since black is the new black and all...

Permanent4