According to Tyrannozaurus, Sharp has decided to put its Zaurus Linux PDA line to an end. Production of the Zaurii will end sometime in February, there is no information on any kind of successor so far.

Third parties have quickly scurried in to announce that spare parts will still be available for ‘a long time’ – whatever that means. Also, there will still be a last release of OpenZaurus.

IMHO, this is the “repetition” of the classic Clamshell dilemma. Many companies manufactured clamshell handhelds(Handheld PC’s, Palm OS powered Sony Clie UX50, HP’s DOS handhelds, and so on), but none of them could transform the segment into a reliable source of income and eventually discontinued these PDA’s.

Why do you think that all clamshells fail?

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