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Sony Exits US Handheld Market

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the end-of-the-clie dept.

10999 writes "Today Brighthand reports that Sony will no longer develop and sell Clie handheld models to the United States market. Most certainly that means no more Clies for Europe, too."

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  1. what a pun by everyplace · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not enough clientele, I suppose?

  2. Re:Battery too small for wireless by perly-king-69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll second that. My Palm m125 used 2xAAA batteries and lasted about six weeks before changes were necessary. Upgraded to a Zire 70 a few weeks ago - batteries need recharging every week, and there's been no significant change in my usage.

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  3. Pitty by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet the guy I rode the elevator up with this morning who was reading his new Clie instruction manual would've liked to know that yesterday.

  4. Yippie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now my Sony conglomerate investment holdings are bound to SOAR. Or is that spelled SOUR?

  5. Re:I won't miss it Sony did not keep promise by cosmo7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why i stopped buying sony stuff that has there propertary memory stick.It is overpriced and infirior.Sony makes good stuff but memory stick and other unneccesary propertary stuff makes me not wanna get there products.

    And that Vaio spell checker sucks too.

  6. Nothing beats by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny
    a good old Motorola DynaTac and a punch of post-its.

    It was stylish, being one of the very first true portables, drew lots of looks (almost nobody had one) - isn't that what mobiles should do - look at all the whiz bang bells and whistles they have now. And it was hackable via they keypad and the access codes.

    Turn it on and dial, none of this boot OS advertise Verizon, think for a minute read the phonebook crap with these new fangled phones.

    You could even use it for self defense, sure it cost over $2000 for the phone and the car adapter kit, but so what, you could look like Gordon Gekko.

    And try writing your phone number down for a girl on your PDA (yeah I know it's slashdot, but some of you may attempt it), give me my post-its and my brick anyday.