Anyone remember the Sharp Zaurus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?submenu=zaurus/zaurusheader&page=zaurus/za
urusmain
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BMXmCO7k24wJ:www.ir
ongeek.com/i.php%3Fsubmenu%3Dzaurus/zaurusheader%26page%3Dzaurus/zaurusm
ain+iron+geek+sharp+zarus&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a

I did much the same with a nokia n800

I had that badboy running, nmap, kismet, hping, dsniff and a few other
goodies with no issues on processing power or alike. So I don't see
why these new smartphones would have any issues with 1GHz processors
and 512MB RAM ..

cheers
Ivan

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:07 AM, The Doctor <drwho (at) virtadpt (dot) net [email concealed]> wrote:
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> On 10/10/2010 09:43 PM, Kevin L. Shaw, CISSP, GCIH wrote:
> > I've heard of Metasploit and Nmap on Android; I don't remember if
> > rooting was required. There are a couple cool wifi discovery apps
> > for Android out there, I use them cursorily on C&A engagements.
>
> I have used Wifi Analyzer (from the Android Store) a bit; it is okay but
> a bit lacking if you are used to something like Kismet.  There is also
> an application called WiGLE WiFi in the Appstore which is supposed to be
> a more featureful wireless auditing application; I have it installed but
> have not yet tried it.
>
> > Having used BackTrack 4 on an Asus Netbook with 2 GB RAM; and not
> > being overly pleased with performance; I feel you need better
>
> Installed or from a USB device?  That made a difference on my EeePC 900.
>
> > resources than those a mobile may provide.
>
> I am inclined to agree with you on this; mobile phones are not designed
> to provide the kind of processing power that laptops and netbooks are.
> Their power cells were also not really designed to provide lots of power
> for long periods of time (say, when running CPU intensive applications).
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