infoSync has the story on a new batch of Zaurus PDA's from Sharp Electronics. Zaurus handhelds offer form factors and features similar to PocketPC units, but include a special version of Linux and TrollTech Qtopia in lieu of Windows CE. “The SL-5600 will use the same general form factor as the current SL-5500 model. However, it will run on a 400 MHz Intel XScale PXA-250 CPU. Rather than using a split-RAM architecture like the Sl-5500 and Pocket PCs do, the SL-5600 will have 32 MB of RAM that is dedicated to just active memory.”
The SL-5600, SL-B500, and SL-C700 will be avaiable Quarter 1 of 2003. Prices have not been set, but the SL-5600 is expected to retail in the $500-$600 range. Until then, high-resolution pictures of the Zaurus SL-5600 are available on the following pages.