Here it is, I have finally received this gorgeous piece of hardware : a Zaurus :)

Better a picture than a long talk, here is the beast. This model can be found only in Japan, so I had to import it via Ebay. Rather expensive, but very powerful… and running Linux from the beginning. Priceless ! When I first made it boot, I was a bit puzzled to see all those Japanese characters and no trivial option to switch to English. In addition it was the evening and I had nothing for dealing with the Japanese plug. So that it went down during the night.

After purchasing a universal plug I decided to flash it with a ROM that was recommended to me : pdaXrom. I don't know what has gone wrong, but 10 minutes later I had in my hand a beautiful but useless device : even the battery LED refused to light… very wrong. “Stress” would not describe the situation too well

For some reason, the service menu had gone too, so that booting while holding D + M was no option. After stressing Google with my repeated “zaurus bricked” searches, I found out that there were actually a second minimalistic ROM available ! “Happiness” would not describe the situation too well . So, in case someone needs it : here is the magical combo that will save your life, your soul, and even your zaurus : Fn + D + M. Yeah !

Actually it seems that you can't destroy your Zaurus (at least the 3*00) by flashing it. Still, don't blame me if you succeed…