The company is negotiating with wireless carriers in Europe to provide voice and data transmission services for Zaurus, reports said.
Users can record TV programs and moving pictures shot with a video camera on memory cards.
The PDA can also record and store music files and receive e-mail. Zaurus supports scheduling and address book services as well as handwriting recognition, Sharp added. The U.S. model will have audio and video functions but not Web access. By implementing this strategy not only in Japan, but also in the United States and Europe, and by working to standardize application software for the Java operating environment, the company said it will bring about the evolution of PDAs that offer an open architecture and network connectivity among a wide variety of devices. Java is widely used on personal computers as well as in mobile phones and other wireless devices.