Saturday, July 24, 2004
iPAQ rz1715 Showing up at Circuit City Stores
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 11:00 AM
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:
"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:
