this is the best answer to the question of what happened to the X5.
for my take on this, see my posts in
this thread.
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Originally posted by grentz
ya, i cant wait, supposedly new features too, YAY!!!!!! :D
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I may be the one who started that rumor (or at least contributed to it). I stand by my predictions, but please be careful and remember that it is only an educated guess.
there is no way dell could be dumb enough to drop the X5 on a whim, "suddenly" discover all this new, hidden demand, and then decide to re-release the device. dell could not have become the #1 PC maker in the world (or just US?) by making moronic marketing decisions like that.
alternately, it does NOT take 3 whole months to catch up with back orders for a PPC that only ("only") has 5-6% of the PDA market share. A reasonable, though I think unlikely, possibility is that there is an Axim supply crisis and orders had to be halted for 3 months in order to restore the product.
and if it really takes 3 whole months to re-introduce the X5 exactly as it was before, with no new features, just to meet "better than expected" sales, either sales went up 1000% or dell's supply system really blows...