Zaurus feedback

[Warren Raquel]

I just did a little more research into the card differences.

WCF11
Max Indoor Range: 300ft. (100ft. at 11Mbps)
Power Consumption: 300mA 

WCF12
Max Indoor Range: 196ft. (65ft. at 11Mbps)
Power Consumption: 250mA

Also note that the WCF11 is a Type II card where as WCF12 is Type I.
Perhaps at a meeting if someone can bring their WCF11 and WCF12 we can
test them out. Anyone have either?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Mollo [mailto:dustin at sonic.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:36 PM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: Zaurus feedback

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:41:32PM -0800, minnigerode wrote:
> Be sure to get a CF 802.11 card with it.  You can sync it much faster
> than with the USB cradle. Don't get the linksys CF card.  It works
just
> fine but blocks the stylus slot.  So you have to remember to get 
> the stylus out before putting in the card.

Just a FYI - Linksys finally fixed this annoying problem.  The card he
is
referring to is the WCF11...nice card, but like he said, the antennae
portion is wider than the CF card itself, and it ends up blocking the
stylus
slot.  They've released the WCF12 that fixes this problem, but I don't
know
anything else about the new card.

On the general Zaurus note, it is a great little device.  Personally, I
don't use it as a PDA and don't ever intend to.  It's way too big for my
needs as a general PDA - I'll keep my Palm Vx for that duty.  I bought
the
Zaurus as a handy Linux/network tool and as a play toy.  Granted - a lot
of
money for a "toy" but hey - I'm a nerd...gotta buy somethin fun once in
a
while, eh?

Putting OZ3 (as Troy mentioned) on the device is one of the best things
I've
done with it.  It fixes all the little annoyances that I have with the
Sharp
ROM (and the best part - if you don't like it, you can put the Sharp ROM
back on the device!)  Among my biggest peeves with the Sharp are no
built-in
console app (ie, you can't pull up a command line on the thing
out-of-the-box, except for going into an entirely non-GUI mode at
startup
that's a "secret backdoor") and no built-in SSH.  If you don't care for
the
built-in productivity apps, you can purchase some replacements (as well
as
some add-ons) over at thekompany.com
(http://www.thekompany.com/embedded/). 
I do know they work under the Sharp ROM, but it seems a few of the apps
might have problems working under OZ3 due to some files being in
different
locations etc.  The OZ3 folks and thekompany.com are working on this
issue,
I hear.

I really should put together some sort of presentation on the device for
NBLUG...hmmm...

-Dustin