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Review of New Sony Clie PEG-NR70

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hardware-to-lust-after dept.

Bryce writes "Here is a detailed review of the new Sony Clie PEG-NR70." Kurt the Pope picked one of these up in Japan and I have to say that it is an amazing PDA. Brilliant screen, and that cool flip open design with a mini keyboard. When I can get one that speaks English, it could be my next PDA (my iPaq died!)

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  1. Some issues against this... by theridersofrohan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Note that this is probably going to sound as an anti-sony rant (and in some ways, it is) but bear with me.


    Here are some issues against buying this:

    PalmOS5 The new OS is coming out soon (Q4). It only supports ARM cpus. This machine has a dragonball (m68k derivative) cpu. Will you give $600 for this and not be able to upgrade it to palmOS 5? You will not be able to run ARM apps either...

    Resolution support: Few apps support sony's 320x320 resolution (the one that older clies have). Very few support this one's. Sony seems to be flooding the market with new APIs when PalmOS 5 is going to tackle the screen size issue...

    Low battery life. The battery life on this is extremely low (4 hours AFAIK? check palminfocenter.com)

    Memory Stick. It's big (physical size), expensive, proprietary, and does not hold too much data. It locks you into an all exclusive and very expensive sony world. And don't forget the MagicGate sticks folks!

    Sony's ATRAC3 (the lovely DRM-enabled music format)

    Few peripherals. Palms, Visors, and even pocketpc enjoy a much greater variety of peripherals... A stowaway for your sony? A GPS module for your sony? Don't think so...


    sorry for ranting :)