04-07-2004, 08:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Baked Beans, Pork Pie and a Pocket PC Please?
If you want a Pocket PC bundled with GPS, where do you go? If you're in the UK, then the answer may be your local supermarket. Nechbi.com report: "If you fancy a Pocket PC with GPS then the place to go to is LIDL. The cheap German supermarket chain is offering a 400MHz Typhoon PPC with Windows Mobile 2003, 64Mb RAM, 32 ROM and Maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card! Only �349 from 8th April 2003. Get it before it goes!" So there!
Exit Stage Left at Lidl
You can see the full specs at Lidl's website. This thing includes maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card. Pretty good going really! Bear in mind that this is only available from stores in London, the South East and the South West of England and South Wales. I wonder if Lidl will ever get round to helping technically lacking & lost Scottish, Welsh speakers, Northern Irish and Northerners. :wink:
We previously posted that Evesham and Halfords are also selling similar units, but with integrated GPS across the UK � for slightly more mulla, naturally. Who would have thought it?
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04-07-2004, 08:40 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I can see the shopping lists already; "250g of ham, milk, a pda, flour .."
We also have had the Lidl invasion here in Finland - it'd be neat if they'd start importing that cheap german electronics, too.
Maybe they could start selling these by the pound?
/jizmo
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04-07-2004, 09:03 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 131
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Nothing new. The aldi here in the Netherlands had pocket pcs with GPS a couple of times. The lidl also sells the pocket pcs here
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04-07-2004, 09:25 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 430
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So do they deliver internationally? :lol:
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04-07-2004, 09:45 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Originally Posted by jizmo
We also have had the Lidl invasion here in Finland - it'd be neat if they'd start importing that cheap german electronics, too.
Maybe they could start selling these by the pound?
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Lidl has already had an interesting AMD 64-bit computer and now this?
They are sure beating the Citymarket with some heavyduty computing! :lol: Fujitsu-Siemens PCs from the last millennuim are a piece of junk that shouldn't even be sold anymore-- still, Kesko are selling it for a way higher price than they should. :?
Also (a bit OT), second class fruits sold by "normal" Finnish stores are nothing compared to the fruits sold by Lidl. Lidl has better quality fruits for a way better price... 8O
In short, Finnish stores have a lot to learn from Lidl -- and maybe Lidl has something to learn from them too (consumer service, at least). :mrgreen:
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04-07-2004, 09:56 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by manywhere
Also (a bit OT), second class fruits sold by "normal" Finnish stores are nothing compared to the fruits sold by Lidl. Lidl has better quality fruits for a way better price... 8O
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A "bit" off-topic, eh? 
My only rant is that when I try to buy the fair-trade bananas, only to find out that most of the time they look like someone has been jumping on them.
Maybe it's a some sort of industrial sabotage? :worried:
/jizmo
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04-07-2004, 11:37 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Sorry lads, but to me this thing does NOT have GPS.
First this is a rebadged ASUS MyPal 620 which has no buil-in GPS, then the Lidl page does not even mention GPS anywhere on the page.
It's Necbi who mentions it, but it looks like they wrongly equate maps with GPS 8O.
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04-07-2004, 11:42 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Originally Posted by jlp
It's Necbi who mentions it, but it looks like they wrongly equate maps with GPS 8O.
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Well, the Lidl website says this:
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Satellite Navigation System with Pocket PC
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The complete system
- For navigation, route planning, mobile data management and processing,
for playing MP3 and Windows Media 9� files
- NEW! Including map
- Pre-installed Software
- Maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card
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They don't mention GPS, but what else is a Satellite Navigation System?
Unless Lidl's website is wrong?
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04-07-2004, 11:57 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 430
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Unless they mean that the Satellite Navigation system is on a card....? :?
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04-07-2004, 12:28 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Satellite Navigation System with Pocket PC
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The clue is in the 'with' I'm afraid. This Pocket PC does not have built-in GPS but comes bundled wth GPS.
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