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New Clie Handhelds

Posted by michael on from the things-to-break dept.

Carthis writes "Sony has officially released their newest Clié handheld, the PEG-NR70, in the USA. This one has a clamshell design, a high resolution 480 x 320 screen (half VGA), Sony's MemoryStick slot, built in MP3 player, enhanced IR port (like the Sony 'T' series), and a REAL SPEAKER for once, instead of the typical piezo buzzer. I want this to have my children. PalmInfoCenter has this story about this tasty new handheld. Following past trends of Sony, this handheld probably won't be available for at least 6 months for us Canadians *grumbles*."

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  1. Couple things... by l810c · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The resolution is better, but is the screen actually larger?

    Memory Sticks :( I wish they would lose these to make sharing between devices better. Sony being Sony I guess.

  2. Did Sony actually innovate? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm stunned! I like the swivel job they did with the screen. That's the type of feature this device needs. One thing I hate about my PocketPC is having to lug a seperate keyboard around. With this device, it nicely integrates the two and even gives the unit an extra usability mode. I wasn't expecting this from Sony, they usually put their money into marketing instead of research. Just look at the Playstation 2. *YuCk*

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  3. Re:Is there a good market for these? by CheechBG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work for a major retail chain that sells these, and your answer is: kinda. Lots of people grill me asking what a US$600 PDA like a iPaq actually does for you, I go through the normal speil, that's about it. The color Palm's, OTOH, sell very well. Priced at US$399, they have better percieved value than even the iPaq, not everyone is savvy enough to load QNX or have the income to afford a iPaq with a microdrive to download their MP3 collections.

  4. Re:All things considered... by Yorrike · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'll agree it does look rather cool. Pity I've boycotted Sony products outright, though, due to these comments made by (at the time) Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler.

    Any company that decides they know what I should and should not have access to, will not have access to any of my cash ;)

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    Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?

  5. This is SWEET! by inburito · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just came back from tokyo and happened to visit the sony building where they had a ton of these to play with(aside new aibos and lot's of other cool stuff that they didn't even have in japanese electornics stores yet)... and it is SWEET!

    It has everything you could possible want. You can use it as a regular looking pda or as a flip open communicator with a keyboard on the bottom. The screen looks amazing compared to regular palms.

    Graffitti area could be turned into a click keyboard too (meaning that it was part of the screen) and the videos were actually worth watching. Sound was decent and of course it came with a sony style headphone plug(with the remote pins too) for when you actually want to listen to music.

    I did not have too much time to stay there(how much can you do in a day and a half in tokyo) but the immediate impression (and for an aibo too) was that I want one! If only half of the programs on the display model hadn't been in japanese I might have been able to play with it a little more extensively..