Sony Launches 2 New "Video" Clie Models

boss_ton writes "Sony is launching its newest Clie handhelds(NX80V, NX73V ), a combination personal video player and personal digital assistant, to the United States.Its already a huge hit in Japan. Amazon is reporting the launch date as July 11th. The NX80V is priced at $600. Here's the scoop on CNet. The official product page is here."

Comments

Re:panasonic sv-av30

[lcorc79]

Actually the built-in video recording's a joke, not meant to be a pocket camcorder or anything like that. That being said, you can get decent video if you encode it on a pc and use the Kinoma player ... But for recording from the Clie, that wonderful 1.3 MP camera is taken down to 160 x 112 resolution - not anything you'd want to record your son's graduation with :)

Re:Why is Japan so far ahead??

[BJH]

You might want to recheck your sources - Japan's military spending on the Self Defense Force is second only to China out of the Asian countries. It's most certainly not "a 1000 person National Guard".

(If you want hard figures, according to the SDF's page, the budget for military spending for this year was 4,926,500,000,000 yen, which at the current exchange rate is 41,852,858,368 US dollars - not exactly peanuts.)

Re:Price Climbing

[A Commentor]

WRONG! There hasn't been price climbing.. Their first set of Clies in this style was the NR70 and NR70V, for $499, and $599 respectively. I know, I bought one of the NR70s. Then they released the NX60 and NX70 and guess what their prices where again $499 and $599... And look, the NX73 and NX80 are $499 and $599.... There other model the NZ90 is at $799... but these mid-line ones have been very consistently priced.

Typo on Sony spec pages

[KFury]

For those confused by the NX spec page, there's a type. though the 73 and 80 seem identical aside from color (silver vs black) and price ($599 vs $499), the 73 has a 300,000 pixel camera, not the 1.3 megapixels stated on the page. It also has half the ram (16 vs 32) though others on this thread claim that the difference is more marginal (11 vs 16) due to 'overhead' and memory address issues.

Re:where are the REAL video phones?

[Enfors]

You're talking about 3G, the 3rd generation cell phone network. They've got that in Japan already (with video cell phones, etc) and we're supposedly getting it here in Sweden by the end of the year.

Re:experience with Sony PalmOS handhelds

[Mr_Silver]

I have. Sorry, it's not an alternative as far as I'm concerned. Ultimately, no matter how badly PalmOS sucks as an operating system, its applications are much better than PocketPC, and that's what counts in a PDA.

I'm assuming you're talking either about additional Palm applications or you come from an environment that doesn't mandate the use of Outlook?

In my experience, the built in PPC applications are far superior to the Palm ones. This is somewhat of a downer for the entire Palm line. The hardware is getting significantly better and cooler yet the software hasn't seen a radical change for the past 5 years (if not longer).

Some simple examples that the Palm can't do: appointments split over two days that sync back to Outlook (the conduit breaks them up), tasks with alarms, contacts with multiple addresses and a syncing solution that means that I can pick out my PPC from the cradle at any time and know that it is completely synchronised with my diary.

Sure the PPC has got its problems - attached word and excel documents in appointments don't sync to the PPC, the notes field is rather limited, battery life isn't as good and sometimes it has a tendency to lock up for no good reason. But I would severly dispute your assertation that Palm (built in) apps are better than PPC's.

video player for Palm

[datrus]

Check out MMPlayer for a DivX/MPEG-1,2,4 player that works on regular Palms.

David