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Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90
V0rtex writes "Once again, Sony is ahead of the game with their new Clie PEG-NZ90. View the specs here. Not to be released until the end of February, this one is packed with some long awaited features since the NX70V such as built in bluetooth and the 2 megapixel camera with flash. Is it really that great? Check out a couple reviews. It would be nice if they would include the faster (400 MHz) version of the XScale processor and step the internal memory up a bit, but this one carries an $800 price tag as it is." Even if it has issues, I think any step towards integrating the vast array of personal electronics (Cel Phone, MP3 Player, PDA, Digital Camera) is a good one. And this looks like the first PDA with a real camera.
Good luck fitting it into your shirt pocket or purse.
With this trend I foresee the following:
"Repeat after me: With this PDA I thee wed."
"With this PDA I thee wed."
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Knowing me, I probably would have been bored/vaguely amused if I was left to my own devices. Then where would we be? And since I try to limit lust to interactions with my wife, I totally would have missed the mark on this one.
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Both Ericsson and Nokia have new phones that integrates lots of PDA features. Of course, most of those phones aren't available in the US.
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Look, I'm a Clie owner myself...have the older T615C...Bought it for the crystal clear Hi-Res display that left the m515 in the dust (at the time). But there's something that's really eluded me about Sony's approach to PDAs....
Why would someone want a digital camera integrated in their PDA? Is there some aspect of Personal Digitial Assistance that involves photography?
Personal entertainment...games, digital music, wireless news service...things a person might use daily or to fight tedium, I can understand. But, a camera?
Some similar multimedia features Sony has touted for a while now have also perplexed me. Like having a picture viewer and movie player in your PDA. In what situation do I, when mobile, need to suddenly watch a 10 sec movie clip? Are people really carrying pictures of their grandkids on these things?!
Then I figured it out. Masturbation. The only viable use I can fathom for having the ability to conveniently and surrepitiously carry around tiny movie clips and random digital phots is to satisfy a lonely geek's need to have easy-access porn-at-hand...for when...ah...nature..calls.
I mean, is this the understood, implicit subtext in packaging all this worthless multimedia capability in a handheld/palmtop? (Wow. Even the form factor is masturbatory.)...or is there some other utility I'm missing?
I can only assume the digital camera is for the porn do-it-yourselfer.
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... you Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 and you have 'been' with more PDAs then girlfriends
Woo hoo!
How can they afford it?
I noticed another great deal the other day too.... new Ferarris are coming with FLOOR MATS!
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Dude, that Palm's going to be faster than the desktop I'm writing this at.
Everybody knows that Mac^H^H^HPalm MHz are faster than PocketPC MHz!
My "PDA" only cost me 89 cents.
The best PDAs are called "Memo Pads." Anything else is a waste of money IMO.
With a 2 megapixel camera and a 0.15 megapixel display, does anyone else think that PDA makers are concentrating on the wrong features?
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From the spec sheet...
> Audio/Voice
>Audio Frequency Response: 20hz
>Recording: ATRAC3/MP3(playback), ADPCM(voice >recording)
>Sampling: 44.1 kHz(ATRAC3, MP3)
>Output: Headphone jack / stereo mini jack
Great if you want thumping bass, without any other annoying frequencies, like 0-19 Hz or 21-20000 Hz!
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I preffer you use a built in PAA (Personal Analogue Assistent, or 'brain' for short). Sure, it crashes a lot, and frequently loses data, but it doesn't weigh any more than I carry around anyway, and I never forget to take it with me.
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Even with the lust, there are specific compatibility problems. I am still unable to get an AIBO to mate with a Clie NZ90 using its big memory stick.
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we have been writing ARM code for palmos way before the pubic devices were available
Just when did the pubic devices become available?