SharpSharp is one company who hasn’t stand pat with innovations in the PDA industry. Sharp has basically always been in the PDA market with some smaller personal organizers that really didn’t have a lot of memory, but for the most part did a good job. The first thing Sharp worked on was a standard PDA and came out with the Zaurus. Sharp first Zaurus wasn’t a real hit, but they have slowly improved them and now the Zaurus has now moved slowly up the ladder to be one of the better PDA’s around. Sharp PDA is a little different from most but that may be why they have seen popular growth.One of the newer Zaurus is the SL-C 1000 uses the Linux system instead of the normal Palm operating system which most use. Sharp has done things others have considered taboo and I think that is a very good thing though. Their PDA has a side view instead of the normal PDA that you see which may have something to do with their popularity it’s really hard to say. Some of the features of this Zaurus are the memory slots where it takes most any memory card which is important for a number of reasons. Many people have so many different memory cards for their PDA’s and the Zaurus takes most of them so you can share information. One of the biggest drawbacks though is that Sharp doesn’t import a lot of their Zaurus products to the United States which sometimes makes them hard to find and get support for the product. The United States market is a lot different from foreign markets when it comes to PDA and cell phones. To prove how popular the Zaurus has become they have user groups that have websites that help owners of this popular PDA. Sharp seems to be content to slowly release their products to the United States so I guess we will have to wait and take what Sharp offers us. I look for Sharp to keep updating their Zaurus and maybe soon another PDA version may be released. With the smart phone becoming more popular I really don’t know how much longer the PDA by itself will be around. If we do lose the PDA than it will be a loss to people who count on the PDA for many things including keeping them organized for everything.
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