wear-hard, This news is a little late, but no-one else said anything, so... The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L has been released in the US. I described it in one of my "wearable prototype laid out" posts: http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-04/200410402.html It does, indeed, have built-in 802.11b WiFi and is a USB 1.1 host! It's available for $699 from Amazon. It also has a 4" transflective VGA LCD, a 400MHz XScale CPU, 64MB RAM, 64MB Flash, the sliding chiclet keyboard the 5500 had, an SDIO/SD/MMC slot, a CF slot, IR, the 2.5mm four-conductor headphone/headset jack like the 5500, docking cradle connector, and an expansion connector which I assume is what the backpack that provides you with a second CF slot and an additional battery plugs into. Add a USB hub to drive the USB Frogpad and a USB serial converter for a BOB-3 NTSC serial text device plugged into your M1 or Eyetop, and you've got a pretty solid little unit. Add GPS in one CF slot, a Microdrive in the second, and hang a USB Bluetooth adapter off that hub, since SDIO and SD devices aren't supported under Linux (you can only use it for SD/MMC flash memory). Hot hot hot. Thanks, Vito -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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