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Zaurus SL-6000 Review

Posted by timothy on from the bit-pricey-though dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "BargainPDA has done a full review of Sharp's Zaurus SL-6000L Linux-based PDA, which was recently released to consumers in the US. There are six pages of review, lots of pretty photos, and comparisons with previous Zaurus models."

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  1. My favorite thing about my Zaurus... by MarkWPiper · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...is that it isn't instantly obselete. The open-source nature of the software gaurantees that people will always be tinkering, improving, and interested in any genuinely useful piece of hardware (which, with a WiFi card and a spacious sD card, it certainly is).

    I love being able to know that many of the advances people make for the new SL-6000 will be equally applicable to my SL-5500, because the source is open!

    In contrast, my roommate's older WinCE PDA, even though it has some nice hardware, is stuck with old software. There will never be anything new that he can do with it, because there is no upgrade path.