New Clie Handhelds

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*."

Comments

Re:Half VGA?

[gmulert]

It's actually 320 * 480. Hooray for /. fact-checking!

Sony is too Proprietary

[puppetman]

Sony is horrible for implementing proprietary standards. Once you have their mp3 player with the memory stick, then you need a Vaio (some of which have a slot for the memory stick), their digital camera and MP3 player.

Some companies think it's slick marketing. But only Sony could get away with it. IBM couldn't with their Microchannel Architecture.

Open standards (like XML and other markup languages), like Open Source, should be high on the list for most /. readers.

Storage

[asv108]

I was excited when I saw that the NR70V was an mp3 player and had a digicam, but was sceptical about storage since it wasn't listed on the main page so I clicked on the specs page

Memory
16 MB (DRAM)
8 MB (Flash)

With 8 megs of memory I guess can take one photo and play one mp3 without purchasing sony's propreitary memory stick(cough.. cough.. remember beta guys)? I would be much more excited about this device if it had a substantial amount of built in storage or had a CF reader.

Re:Yes, but...

[MaxVlast]

Porque?