Translation (from translator, you can understand it at least)
By the continuous disconcertion of the markets and the restraint with
the purchase behavior both at consumers and at industrial customers
Sharp Electronics (Europe) sees for the moment no possibility of
introducing new PDA products to the German market. The product
development of the parent company concentrates with the advancement of
the Zaurus line on the Japanese market and its resources accordingly
adapted. In Japan the successful concept with further models is
continued. In the Sharp sales organization in Germany the coworkers
dealt with with the Zaurus had to be assigned to other product areas.
The telephone Hotline 01805 23 46 75 (EUR 0.12 per minute) is
available further. The Zaurus portals
www.zaurus.de,
business.zaurus.de and developer.zaurus.de are resumed for the time
being to the provision of information. The panels are closed, because
no coworkers are available for the monitoring of the contributions.
The development department in Japan can consider bad economic
situation with appropriate investment restraint in Europe due to bad
turnover successes in overseas, mainly the USA and Europe, as well as
that continuously, for the time being no developments for these
markets. The expenditure to consider all special features of the
non-standard markets with the development increases development costs
in such a manner that a ROI (Return OF investment) cannot be achieved
only from the paragraph in the Japanese market.
Sharp regrets not to be able to offer a technologically interesting
concept further.
