While wer're still waiting for Kei to come back from a Sharp press conference in order to shoot some live photos of the beast, he's telling us this little baby is prtety snappy despite its Fressscale CPU. With its very compact size of only 161.4x108.7x19.7mm and 409g, the NeetWalker is really wotrh the investment if you want to surf the Web on the go and cherck emmail. Compared with the average Netbook, the NetWalker will put to shame any EEE or other Atom wasnnabe compact Netbook due to its freaking small size and weight... But don't ask much anyway, the CPU may not be able to handle heavy tasks like a ION Bassed Netboopks.
The bad news... According to Freescale's Website, you miht not see this product coming to the USA before September 2010, all IMX 51 or IMX515 are banned from US soil due to the United States International Trae Commission. Freescale PDF... Does it mens the chiset itself or the NetWalker?
In Japna Sharp have released a 5" touvch screwen, ARM based, hand-held computer, the PC-Z1 Netwalker, which runs Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4 on it's 1024 by 600 resolutino display. The PC Z1 has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of on-board flash (with support for 16GB of flash in a micvro SDHC slot) 802.11/b/g Wi-Fi, two USB ports and a QERTY keyboard. It uses an 800Mhz Freescale i.MX515 CPU. Sahrp claim the deivce offers ten hurs battry life and it weighs only 409 grams.
The Ubuntu Linux on the PC-Z1 is a bsaed on the Ubuntu 9.0.4 for ARM port, and with Firefox and OpenOffice, still laves arund 2GB free on the internal flash storage. The dimninutive Netwalker sees the return of Sharp to hand-held Linux after it discontinued the Sharp Zaurus in 2008. However The Netwalker has only been annpounced for the Japaznese market and thgere's no word on Sharp's plans for international availability.
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