I may be the first to post this, but RZ1715 available at Circuit City now :O

[PezRadar]

If anyone has been looking at this bargain PDA (I guess its a bargain)

Its now available at Circuit City stores for 279.99. Please do call ahead.

I work at circuit City, and we put ours up on display as well as a whole new PDA display for plam and windows mobile devices thats fairly spiffy. But Its not on the actual website or hpshopping.com, but we put ours up and had 1 still in stock after using 1 for the display.

This was at Frisco, Texas Location on Preston/State Highway 121 Store Number 3264


Do call ahead and accept no liars! Use 3264 as an inventory location if they try tellling u "What are talking about?"

Just say

"Check DPS on 3264, they have it in stock so wheres yours!??!" :P


BTW I did play around with it..

Specs

206mhz Samsung, 25mb of available RAM :(

The Ipaq boxes have changed.. This one is similar to a cardboard zire type box now.. and the interface on the desktop is different for this Windows Mobile 2003 device (Not SE)

Its kinda being marketed as a multimedia assistant i felt.. Since on the front of the actual desktop there were like 4 big buttons that looked similiar to Mac Desktops and there shortcut bar on the bottom.. But it was an easy link to music listening,video watching, internet, and stuff like that

[netboy_my]

It's already on sale over here at Malaysia since Wednesday. It's retailling at RM988 here, converted to USD is about $260 (3.8 exchange rate).

It's sold here as rz1710.

My quick review about rz1710:

First impression: Cheapskate PocketPC. The casing is build completely with plastic. When I turned to look at the back - OMG, the battery is built-in, instead of removable. I wonder why HP still uses built-in battery when they left them in the existing line of iPAQs. So, when you want to change battery, the rz1710 will have to go back to HP. Voice-recorder button is missing. You'll have to access the Note app to record voice, instead of 1-button-record. Now to the system, SE doesn't bring a major improvement. Users can now change the font size. And of course, change the view to landscape (Right-handed or left-handed). No changes in apps like File Explorer, Pocket Word & Excel. PocketIE will now let you change the layout so that you can view the webpage without scrolling. I believe h19xx series users don't have any reason why they should "upgrade" to the rz1710. I'd say it'll be a downgrade.

Pros:
.WM2003SE

Cons:
.Cheap plastic feel
.Missing voice-record button
.Non-removable battery

[PezRadar]

It's already on sale over here at Malaysia since Wednesday. It's retailling at RM988 here, converted to USD is about $260 (3.8 exchange rate).

It's sold here as rz1710.

My quick review about rz1710:

First impression: Cheapskate PocketPC. The casing is build completely with plastic. When I turned to look at the back - OMG, the battery is built-in, instead of removable. I wonder why HP still uses built-in battery when they left them in the existing line of iPAQs. So, when you want to change battery, the rz1710 will have to go back to HP. Voice-recorder button is missing. You'll have to access the Note app to record voice, instead of 1-button-record. Now to the system, SE doesn't bring a major improvement. Users can now change the font size. And of course, change the view to landscape (Right-handed or left-handed). No changes in apps like File Explorer, Pocket Word & Excel. PocketIE will now let you change the layout so that you can view the webpage without scrolling. I believe h19xx series users don't have any reason why they should "upgrade" to the rz1710. I'd say it'll be a downgrade.

Pros:
.WM2003SE

Cons:
.Cheap plastic feel
.Missing voice-record button
.Non-removable battery


Yea it is most definetly a downgrade..

BtW I Dont think its uses.. WM2003 SE.. If it did.. it would say so on the box of the item, but i was carefully inspecting it all over and couldnt find it saying it in system specs or on the box.. Just said WM2003


And you malaysian people are just speshial :P

[Janak Parekh]

Guys, Jason posted to the frontpage. Let's continue the conversation there:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30422&highlight=

Thanks!

--janak