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Sharp Zaurus
Rating: ***-1/2
Perhaps no one knows more about handhelds than Sharp. With more than a million Wizards sold, Sharp is doing something right. Zaurus demonstrates the same care in making necessary trade-offs between PDA features, performance, and size. If you want a small package that runs fast, Zaurus is your PDA.
Sharp eschewed other PDA operating systems in favor of a graphical OS of its own design that follows desktop conventions and is carefully tuned to a proprietary 16-bit processor. As a result, Zaurus applications have snap, its electronic ink is among the best, and its street price is at the low end among PDAs. The trade-off?...