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Summary: The most useful handheld ever done
Review: Thank you sony. You've thought not just in movility, but in practicity when you did this handheld. Including access to the internet was vital, maybe some more internal memory is needed. Sort of 512 megabits.
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Summary: Significant Improvement Over Previous Clie Handhelds
Review: The Clie PEG-UX50 is the latest in Sony's line of high-end Palm OS handhelds. Unlike many of its predecessors, which kept getting bigger and bigger to stuff in more features such as higher resolution cameras, etc. the UX-50 has returned to about the size of the 760 series (in fact, in height, it is slightly smaller). Its high-resolution screen, unlike the NR/NX/NZ 60s & 70s, actually has a portrait aspect ration, making the device seem more like a micro-sized-pc than a Palm. Some prominent PDA vendors such as Mapopolis have released new versions of their software to support this latest form factor, but much of existing Palm OS software is unable to take advantage of the new unit, fortunately, Sony included a backwards compatibility mode! Its small QWERTY keyboard is much easier to use than the NR/NX/NZ units, but still is unsuitable for serious typing. One area that the unit is really lacking is in the cradle department. It ships with a pad that it can be attached to for charging, unfortunately, it appears that the mini-USB cable must be plugged directly into the handheld to sync. Also, the pad is no where near as elegent as cradles for previous models. Also, as a result of switching to mini serial, Sony has rendered virtually all Clie accessories useless with it. Overall, this unit is one of the best to come out of Sony. The camera (which can capture full-Clie-screen video) is incredible, the changes to the keyboard seem to be in the right direction. Now if they could only do something about the price tag ...
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Summary: Sony Clie PEG-UX50
Review: The search for the perfect palm pilot has always been an issue. Many have features that others don't have, that making it complicated to get the perfect one. Finally, Sony has created a PDA that has every feature that anyone could ever want "The Sony Clie UX50".
This PDA has more bells and whistles than any palm powered handheld that you have seen. With its wireless Internet and its blue tooth, it is easy to connect to every type of compatible device and the cradle for charging would be the only thing needed to be connected physically to it. This PDA has crossed over into being more like a laptop.
The UX50 also has a spaced out keyboard, which makes it easy to type in all the information that needs to be typed. Also the UX50 has a swivel screen, which allows you to change the keyboard into a screen. The pda also allows for the left and right-handed user to be comfortable and also eliminating the High-resolution display not to be covered while you write.
The screen resolution (420x380) is better than any pda out. The screen will let you enjoy little movies with the memory stick pro, which goes up to a gigabyte. Also the screen will be perfect to view your pictures from the camera on the pda or other sources. This pda has hand writing recognition for those who like to write on the screen. Also it has an MP3 player and a voice recorder.
This palm powered device is surely one the greatest inventions in the land of the pda's. It almost goes into the realm of laptops. If you were to buy any palm pilot and didn't mind dishing out 650 dollars then the Sony Clie UX50 is the palm for you.
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Summary: Not what it could be
Review: The UX50 has an inovative design and the 802.11b is great but thats about it. No portrait mode screen, bad stylus, non standard short cut buttons and most applications can't take advantage of the extra screen real estate. You are unable to delete applications such as the "clie demo" and others which prevents you from using that portion of memory and clutters the screen with an icon you don't want. The included mail client is not able to display most message types and forget about attachments they are all called file.bin so you can't save and view them.
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Summary: Not what it could be
Review: The UX50 has an inovative design and the 802.11b is great but thats about it. No portrait mode screen, bad stylus, non standard short cut buttons and most applications can't take advantage of the extra screen real estate. You are unable to delete applications such as the "clie demo" and others which prevents you from using that portion of memory and clutters the screen with an icon you don't want. The included mail client is not able to display most message types and forget about attachments they are all called file.bin so you can't save and view them.
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Summary: Sub-laptop
Review: This Clie can be best defined as 'sub-laptop',I think. It is really very handy, with an internal media memory, you may not need to have an additional card! It would be better if the screen could be used in both the landscape and the portrait modes.
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Summary: Dream Toy not Good Enough
Review: This is the ultimate dream toy with features like Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and camera. It's industrial design is legendary. It bundles a lot of nice progams making the Palm OS more usable. There is a web browser, NetFront, but that browser isn't up to primetime yet, sporting less functionality than Netscape 4. The Japanese version is the ONLY palm that supports Japanese character recognition, including Kanji characters. Nevertheless, the Palm OS, though a great hackers dream, it is primitive by far. One cannot easily develop programs for it (especially Unicode versions). There's more support for PocketPC OSes (including free compilers) and better synchronization to MS products. For non-Windows OSes, perhaps this shouldn't matter as much. The Mac OS has pretty good sychronization abilities, including sync'ing photos taken from the camera with iPhoto , and music files with iTunes using the third-party software MissingSync. One thing that always bugs me for all PDAs is that when the battery runs out, all your data is gone. There are other PDAs that will not lose contact information.
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Summary: Get real, $700 bucks! Buy a sidekick.
Review: This thing is $700 bucks, and no phone? Come on. You could buy a Nokia 6800 for $150 bucks and do the same stuff, without the mp3 player. Or buy the Sidekick for $200.
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Summary: nice
Review: Very nice gadget, the only complaints after using it for 2 weeks
are: the screen could be larger, I realize that even though it is also 480x320, its only about 3/4 the size of the NX70's 480x320 screen. hurts the eye when browsing online, it could be brighter too.
but my main dissapointment is: NO PORTRAIT MODE!!!! youre locked into landscape mode, which is a waste. It feels kind of awkward holding it horizontally on tablet mode with the jog dial on the bottomside. Anyway other than that the WiFi rocks.
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Summary: Good handheld save for one flaw
Review: Well, I've been using this handheld for over a week now, and I find it pretty spiffy. I also find it amazing that Sony could cram so much wonder into such a small machine. The onboard Wi-Fi allows me to surf the Internet at hotspots, and if no hotspots are available, I could also surf the 'net by using the onboard Bluetooth to connect to my trusty Sony Ericsson T610 and use it(the T610) as a GPRS modem. And if I get tired from surfing the net, I can use the handheld to play back MPEG videos and MP3 music (which it does pretty well) which I store on Memory Stick. Also, the keyboard is a very well-thought idea, as it makes typing long URLs easier. There is also an infra-red port, which can be useful if you're going to try one of those Palm-powered-remote-control solutions. There is also a onboard camera (a really good one, imho - takes really bright pictures) and microphone (also a really good one - sounds recorded are pretty crisp), so your UX50 can double as a makeshift camcorder. And the landscape-oriented color display makes it easier to watch videos or read websites. And the battery life isn't bad - 2 days per charge with modest usage. My only gripe about this device (actually, PalmOS in general) is that it doesn't support Unicode/CJK. Granted, not many people take notes in Chinese on their handheld, but it is a Internet-enabled device, and it would be nice if the device can view non-English sites (say, if you need to pull some anime lyrics down in Kana format while online with it). Sure, there are solutions abound for that, but they either cost a serious amount of money or need a serious amount of hacking that would mean voiding the warranty of the product. Word has it that both Symbian OS and Windows PocketPC edition supports Unicode. Why not PalmOS? In a nutshell, it's a nice device, but don't expect to use it for reading anime lyrics in Kana format online.
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