Hello, this month's TuxMobil News digest[1] has again good news for Linux PDA, mobile phone and laptop users. Here is an extract of the monthly digest, but note there are much more noteworthy issues, so do not miss to check the whole digest[1]. |=| At TheRegister have been rumours[2] about SHARP bringing new Zaurus Linux PDAs to Europe finally. Nevertheless TriSoft and Xtops.DE make also the SHARP SL-C760 available in Europe without official assistance from SHARP[3]. |=| The Zaurus Synchronization Reverse Engineering Project[4] has released a first issue of a tool to get open access to the PIM data. While the Unofficial Zaurus FAQ gets new maintainers and location[5]. Thanks to Bill Kendrick[6] who started the wellknown FAQ. A whitepaper from IBM explored how to pilot a model plane with a Linux PDA[7]. |=| Linux laptop users with internal modems made by Conexant may try out the new drivers by LinuxAnt[8]. You may find more tips and tricks about getting to run internal modems on Linux laptops at TuxMobil[9]. To support special keys, LEDs and extra ACPI features of ASUS laptops Julien Lerouge has released a new issue of `acpi4linux'[10]. A survey of other methods to get these features to work on different notebooks is included in a dedicated chapter of the Linux-Mobile-Guide[11]. |=| OpenWave has announced Phone Suite version 7 for Linux-based phones[12]. For mobile phones not based on Linux there is a new survey of connectivity methods and tools at TuxMobil[13]. For Sony/Ericsson T68/T68i phones Tobias Bayer has released a new issue of his KDE tool Leif[14]. Werner [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_09.html [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33094.html [3] http://xtops.de/xtops_pda_sharp.html [4] http://www.cyph.org/zsrep/ [5] http://www.zaurususergroup.com/ [6] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ [7] http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9733962835.html [8] http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/ [9] http://tuxmobil.org/modem_linux.html [10] http://julien.lerouge.free.fr/ [11] http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html [12] http://www.openwave.com/newsroom/2003/20030918_opwv_v7_0918.html [13] http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux.html [14] http://www.tobias-bayer.de/en/leif.html You may find the daily TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html -- |=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed