Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 resources

These are my personal notes for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00x PDA, the first one which seems to be able to be a valid successor to my good seven-years-old HP 200LX.

Accessories

• case: I can recommend the SL-5500 leather case from extreme-limit. As I guess I'm the first in Europe having imported one from Japan, I've made some photos of it so you can have an idea how it is before you order it.

• microphone: I've made a really small pluggable microphone for my PDA. There are others who implemented an internal microphone, but you have to give up warranty for that, so it wasn't an option for me.

  But you can easily make one by yourself. Just buy a small electret mic and a 3.5mm plug and solder them together like this. You will need a fine soldering iron though...

• SD-cards: As I knew Toshiba has the fewest power requirements, I bought a Toshiba 128 MB SD card, and tried another one of the same type. The Zaurus seems to have some problems with it: sometimes it loses access to the SD card, emerging either in it being a read-only filesystem, reporting just I/O errors or even locking up the whole unit. Very bad. It might have to do something with ext2/vfat filesystem issues, I'm still testing. Any hints are appreciated.