Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 19, 2003 @09:12AM from the slick-as-clamshells dept.

Pointing to this Associated Press story carried by the Miami Herald, Jorkapp writes "Sony has announced that they will be using Processors manufactured by themselves in their next generation of CLIE handhelds, which are due to ship this Semptember. This is only the first step though, as Sony is planning to use its own line of processors for the next generation of Playstation systems. This new processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!) and the ability to play video at a smooth 30fps." And jake writes with a link to a story at mobilemag.com which also describes the new handhelds (the UX50 was mentioned the other day), and says "both the CLIE UX50 and UX40 handhelds will be available through American retailers in September for about $700 and $600, respectively, but can be pre-ordered now through Sony's website."

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Re:proprietary hardware by DNS-and-BIND · 2003-07-19 09:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

I don't remember beta tapes being an hour. We rented regular movies all the time, and they weren't two tapes.

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Re:$700 price point by james72 · 2003-07-19 10:10 · Score: 2, Redundant

I think you're missing the point... I go jogging with my PDA in my pocket, playing my latest MP3's. You can't do that with a laptop. I can't quickly lookup my mates number in the pub on a laptop. Need google when you're stuck in traffic on the way to the beach? Laptop's at home... Anyway, I think I've laboured my point enough. -James.