[nflug] Looking for Sharp Zaurus -> Cell Phone/Dial-Up Solution

[David Dudek]

Mark,

I feel your pain.  I had a Sharp Zaurus 5600 myself.  I still think it's 
the best mobile device to ever come out, but I always felt that by using 
it I was on a very lonely bleeding edge.  It always seemed that most of 
the community development efforts were focused on the older 5500 or the 
newer clamshell models.  And for commercial support -- forget it!  Mine 
broke shortly after Sharp shut down the dev site, and I just decided to 
abandon it.

Getting back to your original question, I don't recall anything that 
worked like that for the 5600, but I do remember that they had some 
CF device that turned it into T-Mobile phone.  All you had to do was plug 
an ordinary cell headset into the headphone jack.

If you haven't already, check out the site myzaurus.com.  I think you 
might find refernces to it there.  You might be able to pick one up on 
eBay.

-- 
Dave Dudek

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Mark T. Valites wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:09:23 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mark T. Valites <mark-nflug at valites.net>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] Looking for Sharp Zaurus -> Cell Phone/Dial-Up Solution
> 
> I currently have a Sharp Zaurus 5600 that I'd like to connect to a Motorola 
> v60s to use to access dial-up connections. I'm looking for some type of 
> solution to connect the two. (Just in case I get paged while out fishing...)
>
> A company called Socket apparently used to have a product line called a 
> "Digital Phone Card" (DPC) that connects to the compact flash slot of a PDA 
> (or other device), but from looking at their "Support for Socket Products on 
> the Sharp Zaurus" document (http://www.socketcom.com/ZaurusSharp.asp), I 
> can't tell for sure if there's one that supports the "s" version of the 
> Motorola v60 series or not. (Additional info here: 
> http://www.socketcom.com/support/support_dpc.asp?Manufacturer=Motorola/Nextel)
>
> Can anyone provide any insight on the Socket products or perhaps suggest an 
> alternative solution?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mark
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