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Retail Sharp Zaurus Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-is-better dept.

Arminius writes "It looks like Sharp has finally released the Linux based Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for retail sale. This thing is so awesome! Other than only being able to listen to mp3's thru my headphones only, this thing blows away my iPaq 3835! It even has Opera as the web browser. "

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  1. Upgrade Your Browser by e_n_d_o · · Score: 1, Troll

    Apparently Mozilla 0.9.9 isn't good enough to view sharpelectronics.com. They recommend I upgrade to MSIE 4.

    I let them know that my decision to purchase an SL-5500 is based solely on them letting me in with whatever browser I want to use. (I had to use Netscape 4.x to get to their feedback page) So far there has been no response.

    It's absurd to lock people out of a Web site based on browser-type in the hopes that folks using ancient ("third-generation") Web browsers are actually going to spend 17 hours downloading the latest version on their 14.4 modems.