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Sony Announces Superslim T415
atomic212 writes: "Sony has announced a new mid-range handheld today, the PEG-T415, a 320 by 320 monochrome model that is, according to Sony, the world's thinnest PDA. Though only .41 inches thick, it has a Jog Dial and a Memory Stick slot and includes remote control software."
...until the next one comes out in three weeks. It's disturbing to think they produce these things simply because they can, and more disturbing that people who don't need them (which means 90% of us) buy them because they absolutely must have them. Feh.
I'd ask people to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, but I won't.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
The T415 also has a built-in vibrating alert.
For great justice!
I have been asking, pleading, begging palm for a model that's a little more "industry friendly" which I would certainly pay a pretty penny for. I guess being able to "hear" this thing go off while trying to program a machine that is stamping out oil filters will be enough to get that old palm up on Ebay.
My only question now is when are they going to make one that vibrates, is in a mil-spec casing, and will make a small fire if I'm trapped in the wilderness?
I apparently forgot that sig != uptime...
I once bought a device that was encased in a solid piece of aluminium, for "strength"... I had it sitting on a pillow on my bed, and i accidentally dropped a book (a reasonably light one) on it, and BAM- huge dent in the aluminium, and it doesn't close properly now. How durable is this device going to be? How resistant to impact will it be?
... .41" thick certainly can't leave much room for padding
I wouldn't want to have one, and then have the lcd shatter or the casing bend because i dropped it by accident
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i don't care about the thickness of my PDA. after seeing the sony clie 750 (i think that's the number) at best buy, i now care about the resolution. the color model with 320x320 is the first PDA i've seen where you could actually conceivably use it to read books on. comparing it to the prism was laughable- and it looked better than any of the pocket pc's.
by my reckoning, it is 144 dpi. if handspring would come out with color at 144dpi, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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Hmmm. I have a Jornada that has mostly sat in a drawer now for two months. This is because I won a Palm V. I liked the Jornada, though it was a little too big to carry around in my pocket comfortably, but once I played with the Palm, I found that while the Palm does not have all the gimmicks that the Jornada has, it is infinitely more useful. The Palm UI is clearly years ahead of the PocketPC UI, and given MS's tendencies, I do not think that it will ever improve. Plus there are a lot more *useful* apps for the Palm. I use it for grocery lists, to dos, scheduling, contacts, and other useful things, and it excels. On the Jornada I could get these things to work, but I was always fighting it to make it work. Anyone who thinks that they will be playing a FPS on their PDA for more than a month is probably mistaken, and while I was able to impress my friends for a while with the 'gee-whiz' factor of the multimedia stuff, it is honestly pretty poor, and no substitute for a real laptop. All of the 'features' that the PocketPC touts over the Palm are impressive loking at first, but ultimately useless to me.
Hyperbole is the worst thing ever.