[Sussex] Good deal on LINUX PDA's

[Steve Dobson]

Guys

On 11/13/2002 3:45 at AM Geoff Teale wrote:
> In general surfing last night I discovered that the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
> is available at a special discount price from Sharp's online store - it's
> £150 off the RRP plus it has a whole bunch of extra's thrown in - total
> £299 including VAT.
>
> http://www.sharp.co.uk/zaurus/essentials/essentials.htm
> 
> This offer is open until the end of November.  
>
> Why, you might be asking, are they doing this - it certainly doesn't say
> on the site.  The answer is that a new model (SL-5600 with more RAM and a
> faster processor) will be launched here in the next couple of weeks (it
> was lanuched in the USA yesterday and has been out in Japan for a couple
of
> months).

I'm going from memory here and long term storage at that so cosmic rays may
have
corrupted the data :-) but wasn't the Sharp panned as a PDA comared with
IPac and
others?

Steve