News Sony Clié PEG-UX50 at PC Mag

Forget Pocket PC's - PalmOS is the way to go. And nobody (and I mean nobody) can touch Sony in the PalmOS PDA stakes. And they've just raised the bar again, as you can see in this review from PC Mag:

"Once again, Sony makes us reconsider what PDAs are all about. The Clié PEG-UX50 ($700 street), billed not as a PDA but as a PEO (personal entertainment organiser), combines a digital camera, an MP3 player, a thumb-style keyboard, and two flavors of wireless connectivity for entertainment and communications. The landscape screen-which makes the unit look like a doll-size laptop-really shows off Sony's superior interface for the Palm OS. Yet even with all its features and software, the question is: Should you spend $700 for a personal entertainment device? We vote yes."

Read more here, and see why GOO wants one sooooo badly!

 

Looks nice, but i still want a Compaq TC1000 though - drewl.

You cant really play DVDs or Divx on a palm

 

Oh contrare.... Converted using Kinoma, they play very well indeed!

 

english? what's Kinoma?

 

It's a 3rd Party movie player / encoder for the Palm OS. People use it to encode stuff to play on their Clie's / Palms. I get decent peformance from it even on my old 66Mhz NR70v.

The settings on the encoder is flexible enough to allow you to get a whole 30min clip onto a 128mb memory stick with decent quality. The newer Clie's and Palms that can use the larger capacity flash media can obviously do more.

Oh - and the newer Clie's also come with the Sony 'Movie Player' software, which is aledgedly better than Kinoma - but I have no personal experience with it. I believe that does native MPG1 and a Sony-fied MPG4. The Encoder that comes with it can handle all the popular video formats (so I reliably informed by the guys at Clie Source).