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Sony's Palm PDA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the palm-pilot-plus-vaio-equals dept.

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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  1. Translation -- sort of by hariya · · Score: 4

    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.
  2. SONY Palm PDA?? Yeah, right... by ilbrec · · Score: 4

    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....