| [News] Opera for the Zaurus | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 08-Nov-2001 11:58 GMT by Christian Kemp | 17 comments
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alffx noticed The Register had an article that said: Opera signed up Sharp as a new customer this week. Sharp will use the Linux-based Opera 5 browser in its Zaurus SL-5000D handheld computer.
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Opera signed up Sharp as a new customer this week. Sharp will use the Linux-based Opera 5 browser in its Zaurus SL-5000D handheld computer. The device runs on an embedded Linux operating system and uses a Java application environment.
Lineo, Trolltech and Insignia Solutions provide the remaining software for the gadget. It uses 206MHz Intel StrongARM system-on-chip processor and features a built-in keyboard available underneath a sliding panel.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 08-Nov-2001 12:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (adam):
Bill told us that Sharp was a major partner of AInc and the Zaurus was a major win for AmigaDE which would be used on millions of Zaurii.
Yet here we have a press release announcing the browser chosen and, ~~and this is the important bit), listing all the KEY players in teh overall product, and look! No mention of AInc or their product.
The PR mentions Sharp, Opera, the providers of the embedded Linux OS, the Java system, even the GUI toolkit.
Yet no mention of what was supposedly a major component, according to AInc... |
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