If you are one of the lucky people with that email your final price for the lower model Axim will be $175 and the higher model will cost you a mere $265. The $50 mail-in rebate may end at any time, but Dell spokespeople have indicated that the company doesn't have any plans to end the program. They did indicate that it may be used to moderate demand - which may make sense because the company is reporting that they sold 300 of the devices in a single day from their booth at Comdex.
Editor's Take
Dell is really pushing hard to take a chunk of the 'budget' Pocket PC market. This is Dell's first entry into the Pocket PC space, and I'm sure they want to show HP that they are going to be able to compete. My question is how low will the manufacturers be willing to go in the price limbo?
This is a good thing for consumers as long as the features don't begin to drop along with the price. If the functionality of the budget Pocket PCs remains constant or even increases at the same time that the price is falling consumers will be the ultimate winners.
