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User Submitted Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 PDA Reviews (cont...)Date: 2003-10-29 Most powerful & useful PDA ever! The SL-5600 is an incredibly powerful PDA. With it's vastly updated software & OS (over the previous SL-5500 model), and the upgraded hardware.. its a much more practical and useful device than it's predecessor. The 1,700mA battery means long battery life, the screen is crisp and clear. The Web Browser is the best I've ever seen on any PDA! The e-mail client is awesome, allowing me to connect to multiple POP & IMAP mail boxes. The Office Suite is compatible with Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Throw in a pocketop (www.pocketop.com) portable keyboard and you can get rid of your laptop for good! This PDA is easier to use and more powerful than any PocketPC device out there. Date: 2003-10-15 A real good start but... I saw a friend's Zaurus SL-5500 and thought it was awesome, so I decided to try out the SL-5600. I have had it for about 6 months now and have had some time to fool around with it. I love the quality of the graphics, and the games are great. Figuring out how to get documents into and out of it can be a little tricky, especially for someone like me that has never owned a PDA before and is only slightly computer literate. I am sure it can do a lot more than I have managed to figure out. My biggest dissapointment is the assistance that I have gotten with it. My installation CD met an unfortunate demise, and now getting the replacement downloads is pretty much impossible. I have called Sharp, one of the registered maintance centers, checked the internet, and talked to people at Best Buy... noone has been able to help me or even give me any advice. The download for the Installation CD on the Sharp web page is for the SL-5500 and won't work. The drivers for this model are nowhere to be found. It is really exasperating! I hope they find a way to fix this soon. Date: 2003-09-20 Beware Linux PDA!! Sounds cool, does n't it. Well, only till you buy the junk and bring it home to realize no drivers are available for any of the add-ons. I bought this SL-5600, along with a Socket WLAN card (which was addvertised at Sharp's website). I bought an infrared keyboard as well. None of them work with the PDA. Sharp's site has no support for the WLAN card or the keyboard and Socket's website says they have drivers for every other PDA except Zaurus SL-5600. Same for the infrared keyboard. Not to mention that all the cool things like c compiler etc are not available for this version (they are available for SL-5500). Bummer! I bought this about 5 months back. I guess sometimes later, some The Personal Information Manager (PIM) definitely isn't as mature as PalmOS and it can show at times in terms of the features and usability of the grahical interface. There are also the standard issues that go along with installing software packages on linux. For the person who just wants a PDA that you can keep phone numbers in and play the latest version of foo-bar-tastic Mega-Brickout2004 on, go with a Palm or Windows based PDA. If you are comfortable with linux, then this is your product. It is essentially a mini-desktop computer that can run Apache, OpenSSH, FTPd, etc and at the time I'm writing this it's the fastest PDA in terms of CPU speed. The internal ROM is a little small, so you may want to look into adding a SD card for additional storage. But to be honest, I love mine.
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