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."

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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: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.