FYI: Sharp (Zaurus) SL5500 is out @ Amazon for $499

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Just for those who've been interested in this little guy:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000063D6E/qid=1017195864/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_67_1/102-2864973-6908140

This is the commercial version - not the development version.

Good:
Full Opera browser, Handwriting recognition w/ training, proper Email handling, and some great potential.
For the record Opera 5.0 supports 128-bit encryption, TLS 1.0, SSL 3, CSS2, XML, HTML 4.01, WML, HTTP 1.1, ECMAScript and JavaScript 1.3 (yes, that's quite a change from PIE!).

Someone's gotta do a port of StarOffice to this thing!

Bad:
Cheezy piezo-electric speaker, and unproven trackrecord.

Very very tempting for me (you'll know why if you've read my rants! :roll: )
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And Mobileplanet as well:
http://www.mobileplanet.com/product.asp?dept%5Fid=2660&pf%5Fid=MP550300&listing=1

Initial reports are that Opera is very fast and their Zoom feature works much better than PIE (although the zoom feature on PIE is not hard to beat!).

PDABuzz has a few users that already own it.

Oh, and apparently a new version with built in camera (640x480 pics, and 20 sec mpeg clips) is already out in Japan. Damn that's quick.

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