07-24-2004, 07:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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iPAQ rz1715 Showing up at Circuit City Stores
Pocket PC Thoughts reader Mystery0 is a Circuit City employee, and guess what they just got in stock? The iPAQ rz1715. However, his initial impressions aren't all that good...
"I am an employee at a Circuit City store. I just thought I would let you know that the ipaq rz1715 is already for sale at Circuit City stores. If it is not on display then ask nicely and an employee can check if they have it in stock, and if they do, they can sell it for $279.96. My store only has the ipaq rz1715 but I would not be surprised if other stores had other models. CC is also going to carry the ipaq rx3415 and rx3715. They will proably carry the hx4705 as an online only model.
We have had it for two days and we have been playing around with what is going to be our display model. I can confirm that it has Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 10MB ROM, built in battery that is not replaceable, an SD slot, and only 25MB RAM avaible to user! That is a pitiful amount of RAM for a PPC. I also have some concerns over the screen. It looks great, but it is not very sensitive. In order to make it respond I had push to hard enough that I felt like I was going to damage the screen. I have been selling ipaqs since the first ipaq 3600s came out and this is the least sensitive srceen to date. I hope that we simply recieved a bad batch. I have some pictures of the box and it contents, and pictures from all six sides of the ipaq itself, plus some of it next to a 5000 series ipaq for size comparison. If you happen to post this on the site then I will email you the pictures too."
If Mystery0 is reading this, I'd certainly love some pictures - you didn't include your email address in the message you sent us, so I can only ask you for the photos in here. Contact us again, send us the pics, and we'll publish them immediately. :mrgreen:
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07-24-2004, 07:08 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 830
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jeez. This unit sounds worse and worse ever time i hear more about it. What a huge disappointment from hp.
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07-24-2004, 07:10 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Wow, HP's not putting anything into its $279 iPaq. I'm kind of shocked since I think that device could be sold for a lot lower, around $199. HP, why not compete with Palm's Tungsten E?
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07-24-2004, 07:34 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2003
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At CompUSA too
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07-24-2004, 07:36 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 652
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25MB RAM :? . Must be for the appointments only type of people. But not for $279. That would scare of even them.
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07-24-2004, 07:45 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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25 mb??? My god! 8O And this is shared between storage and memory to run programs? My 1915 has about 45 mb memory available which I can allocate for storage and to run programs...
So, to recap, it has a slow processor, little memory, a single slot, an unresponsive screen, and it's $100 more then what I paid for my 1915?
If it was $100 cheaper, it'd still be expensive, but at least it could compete more or less with the Zire's and low end Clie's... at this price, they're not going to sell more then a handful.
WHAT THE F... ARE YOU THINKING HP???
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07-24-2004, 07:46 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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How on earth did HP manage to make such a huge miss-step? This is really very odd. Surely they have to be aware that people will not buy a Pocket PC at that price with those specs!?
Sell it at a price to compete with the low end Palm Zires, and it will find a niche...
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07-24-2004, 08:02 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 276
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Jason, better close the italics since the whole frontpage is in italics below this newspost... 
A PDAGold member also said that CompUSA is carrying this device. He or she belives that the price was around "279 or 299" USD. Anyone else seen the same thing or other places?
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07-24-2004, 08:26 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 3
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Mystery0
This is Mystery0, the person who sent in the news. I am having trouble getting the pictures to you guys. They are in a 748kB zip file, but I don't know where to send it.
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07-24-2004, 08:36 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 293
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you should be able to use even yahoo to upload a file that small.. yahoo's limit is 1MB i thought so i'm sure Jason's email can take 10MB files with no problem...
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