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Sony's Palm PDA
Mr_Meowman pointed us to linkage with pictures of Sony PDAs. Of course I'm not skilled enough to read the text, but it appears to be a pilot, in color, with the camera and memory stick from the VAIO picture books.
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Uhmm, I'm interested in all 4 of those declined stories.... much more-so than 2 pictures of a Palm in a Sony shell... What's the deal with declining them? -Lars
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You probably submitted an English site that made it obvious that it was an artist's rendition. What you should have done is translate the page into something the /. team don't speak, then they would have posted it based purely on the pretty pictures.
I thought the post was referring to the text that was on the PDA, not that the sight was in japanese. A little clearer warning would be nice.
That aside, yes, it appears to be some version of palmOS with a sony exterior. They have done a good job at producing an identifiable hardware visual style.
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They would probably use it as an adjunct to the "up/down" buttons. Makes sense for scrolling.
Address -- Calc -- Date Book Expense -- ???? -- HotSync (could tell by the logo) Mail -- Memo Pad -- ???? ???? - Security -- To Do List Your question marks are "Graffiti", "Palmscape" and "Prefs". Peppe
I thought everyone could read boxes of unicode.
Why else post a link which 99% can't read, which is speculation on a product which is a year off, and only contains two vague artist's renditions?
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The image is not a rendered. It's hand-drawn. Airbrushed, probably in Photoshop. The difference between the gradient on the battery cover and the rest of the casing is a dead giveaway.
What's more, on the pull out wand the light reflection is perfectly paralell along the long axis of the wand.
Yes, it's a linear gradient. Select rectangular region, apply gradient, shape with eraser, and tweak with airbrush.
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And yet CmdrTaco finds time to filter through article suggestions and bring us the true cream of the crop. Truly, this Sony VAIO PalmPilot will revolutionize our world. Just love his commentary on it, too.
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That image is the same image that is always used to denote a color Palm. If you go to Palm's web site you'll see photo's of the IIIc devices all with that screen on them.
Frankly I suspect something is wrong with the color screen. Every electronics store around here has demo units on display for all the other palm versions and even a few WinCE devices. But the IIIc is always a mock-up with that screen shot glued on.
If you're really interested a slightly better version of that shot is here.
Thanks to macpeep, here's the complete menu screen. See the other reply though for why this is totally worthless:
Address |Calc| Date BookExpense | Graffiti | HotSync
Mail| Memo Pad | Palmscape
Prefs| Security | To Do List
Address -- Calc -- Date Book
Expense -- ???? -- HotSync (could tell by the logo)
Mail -- Memo Pad -- ????
???? - Security -- To Do List
The picture was taken at 10:29. The category is All. I can't read the buttons, but it looks like they're the same as on the Palm.
Extremely Palmy.
If you look closely, the dimension of the screen is a little off (too small). Also, the shape is based on the old Palm and Palm Pro and Palm III. You all know that if Sony was going to copy a Palm Computing Design, it would be the new aluminum/titanium/badass whatever design that actually looks like a Sony product, not the lame squared-off version.
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I'd love to be able to read this in english....I don't know what's on the site, but if someone could translate some specs (if there are any) it would be really nice.
...that they don't plan on keeping that color style. Who'd want to carry around some lame purple palm pilot? It'll be nice to view color on the go, but can anyone find out what the cost will be on this sucka? Damn Japanese text, I can't read a thing. Sharkey
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Hmmm... so, what exactly are "all the basic commands"?
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It looks pretty cool considering its only an Artist's Rendition. However I think it's going to be way too expensive. The Palm VII is $500 and Sony wants to add Camera and a MemoryStick Port? You will probably be able to get a nice PC for the price that this thing will be.
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This is merely a artists rendition of what a Sony PDA might look like. Looks like the artist basically changed the hue of a palm image in Photoshop and drew on a few Sony-esqe things like the memory stick and the VAIO logo. I wouldn't be surprised if neither the stick nor the camera were ever said by Sony to be on their PDA or not.
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We covered this over a month ago right here and it is only an artist's conception.
/. the same day we posted it but it was rejected ... I guess you just have to wait a few weeks and resubmit to get stuff posted these days. *sigh*
It was submitted to
I've seen those same images before, but they were being shown as an artist's rendition, not the actual product.
This came on Palmstation last month. If you want to read the article, and the comments there, check out:
http://www.palmstation.com/vi ew_article.py?article=1784The light source on the back cover is at a differant angle than the silver thing on the top. I give the modeler points for changing the light source on the battery cover, but the picture is clearly the result of a Sony engineer fucking around with Ray-dream studio while drinking one to many Kirins.
What's more, on the pull out wand the light reflection is perfectly paralell along the long axis of the wand. Clearly rendered. Also, the view showing the back of the device shows the memory stick going right through the hinge for the camera, and the volume wheel. Unless the device is as thick as a brick, this is impossible. Oh, and the light reflection on the synch port is straight-on/all-pixel=R240/G250/B140. This doesn't happen naturally.
This is vapor(hard)ware.
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I had my Japanese colleague read and explain the site for me. Here is what I gathered.
As some have correctly surmised, it is an artist rendition. Sony does not have a working prototype. It is expected by the end of this year. It will be released in the VAIO product line.
Besides the memory card and camera, it will incorporate a jog dial. Seems like Sony likes them a lot. I have no idea why! That was lost in the translation.
Add on modules in the memory stick will have GPS, PHS(kinda like PCS, data capability, etc.) and can play MP3s. Runs on a Bluetooth chip and has a Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394 port (or syncing) besides USB syncing.
Supposedly there is a push for also making a Handspring compatible expansion slot. NTT (Nippon Telecom something) will provide the content. They have an existing agreement with Palm Computing.
That is all I got. Maybe a native speaker or an educated guesser can take it from here.If you can read Japanese (I do read Japanese, in case you are wondering), you will quickly find out that this is only what ZDNet Japan is imagining SONY Palm PDA. They have no idea what SONY is really planning to do with Palm PDA. It is more like they are hoping somebody from SONY will read that and make something like what they have....