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Sharp Ships Zaurus SL-5600; 5500 Available Cheap
Bill Kendrick writes "LinuxDevices is reporting the good news: Sharp is now shipping the Zaurus SL-5600 Linux-based PDA. Compared to the SL-5500 that's been out for the past year, this new model sports a 400MHz X-Scale CPU, twice the Flash (32MB), twice the RAM (64MB) a much better battery (1700 mAh), and a real speaker and mic. Learn more at Sharp's website." And IceFox writes "Well I wasn't expecting this to happen till next week, but I guess it was put up early. For a limited time on hsn.com you can get a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA for $198.92, combined with a hsn.com coupon you can bring the price down to $169.08. For anyone who has wanted to play with this Linux PDA here is your chance to get it for very cheap." Update: 03/18 02:03 GMT by T : Reader Brendan Hoar corrects the listed specs: "The specs for the SL-5600 are incorrect. It should be 64MB of flash, 32MB
of SDRAM. It's technically *half* the RAM of the SL-5500, not twice the RAM." Thanks.
Outstanding Timothy.
You just devalued my ebay auction of my Zaurus 5500.
Now I'll be stuck with it forever or somehow explain to my wife how the damn thing lost oh around $200 of value overnight.:)
"You're selling it for how much???"
Hmmm, guess I'll be dropping my reserve next time around.
You've got an easy breezy wind at your back...most of the time.