Sharp Netwalker PC-T1 unboxed, now available
By Sean Hollister 
posted May 31st 2010 9:22AM
posted May 31st 2010 9:22AM
posted May 31st 2010 9:22AM
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@bravokiloromeo
not NetWalker, but NitWitker.
In before someone saying
'It needs android'
@Nokia N900
In before someone saying
'It looks like it was made in the 90's
1992 you say!?
@Fero
Sharp just called. The want their Wizard back!
@Fero i like the looks of the 90s 8)
Ubuntu can handle everything that all other OSes can do. Sharp had a good decision on that.
@samialtas Oh, here we go. Here comes the Freetard Brigade.
@Pickaxe
Be a little more 'open' minded. I'm actually surprised it's taken this long for Ubuntu to show up on a device like this (cue someone posting a list of them :)). The Ubuntu Net Remix is tailored for netbooks, being light and very user-friendly, while still being a real 'PC type' OS with Firefox, Flash, VLC, Open Office, Skype and whatever else you fancy. To me, it's a pretty good fit with a tablet.
Like everything else, it depends on what you'll use the thing for and what you personally value in a device, not necessarily what's free and what's open, or whose logo is on the back.
@beefiron I totally agree with you. That was what I meant to say. If it has everything you need, why to pay for license?
@beefiron
Yeah, you might want to have a look at the SmartQ MIDs. Awesome devices. I'm also pretty sure these Sharp devices will be quite a bit more expensive.
what the hell is that - it left one looks like a Gameboy and the right looks like a phone which "happens" to have a touch screen - looks old fashioned
The one on the right looks like a GPS.
reallllyyy ugggllyyy
winner of the annual Tech Design Awards 1996!
close second: N64
Is it just me or does it look like it was designed by a dozen demented monkeys high on fermented banana juice?
One looks like an oversized, uglified Psion and the other looks like a bulky GPS.
To be dead serious my father owned a Sharp IQ personal organiser when I was about 10 (1995). It looked cooler than either of these.
@nonexcludable
which reminds me... Psions were sexy sexy sexy. http://goo.gl/Pvsh
Honestly, Topolowsky would kill for that keyboard on any phone.
I'm seriously interested in the one on the right and anxiously awaiting the Pocketables review. Pretty much everything else in this form factor now is Android. I'm a satisfied iPad user, so what I need in a tablet is a complement to that, not a rival. Android is more of a rival to iPad, while this thing provides all the old-fashioned local-storage-centric tools that I still want, at least for the next few years. Obviously, the utilitarian look doesn't bother me any more than it would on any other utilitarian tool.
It surprises me that Engadget readers are so keyed on the fact that it does not look fashionable. I would welcome a photo gallery of Engadget readers similar to the People of Walmart but with more of a Techno-Bill slant.
@zorg Engadget commenters may not be the most fashionable people around, but if nothing else we want our devices to look like they're from this century.
Pretty interesting devices actually. About the looks, they should maybe use another material/colour. I also think it would look a lot better when the screen is turned on.
Ugh. "Netwanker" is more like it.