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Summary: i got 2!
Review: i will be quick and straight. this is the best palm based pda you can get. 320x320 screen resolution compared to the 160x160 on other handhelds. it looks great, full color, fast, slick, and its a sony. i bought one for myself and just bought another one for my girl friend. the price is amazing!
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Summary: 65,000 muddy colors on otherwise excellent PDA
Review: In general I'm pleased with the T615C. It is nicely designed (except for the tiny up/down button, but you'll mostly use the jog wheel anyway). The display is bright and excellent for text, and the size and shape of the unit are pleasing. The only real disappointment has been the colors. If you install Clie Paint and look at the palette, you'll see that none of the available colors are at all vivid -- pure red, for example, is really a sort of maroon. As a result, photographs don't display at all well; you can improve things by applying deep saturation before transferring them to the Clie, but they still look washed out.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: I'm a heavy user of PDAs. I've had two Handsprings, a Visor Solo and Visor Prism, and now the T615C. The Clie is a wonderful device. The 16MB of onboard memory is enough for most users, but I like to carry around a number of daily news sources, a couple of translations of the Bible, a couple of Bible commentaries, articles of interest from on-line publications, pictures of my family, an outline and notes for a class I'm teaching, and a number of short stories that I'm working on. With a Memory Stick, there's room for that and enough left over for a couple of encyclopedias.The battery life is impressive, compared to the Visor Prism. I use it frequently at work as a Rolodex replacement and for yellow sticky-note reminders with alarms, and I usually finish an eight-hour day with a 100% charge. I love the form factor, the jog wheel, and the high-resolution screen. My only complaint is the up/down toggle switch, which is next to useless. Other than that, this is about as close to the ultimate PDA out there, for my money.
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Summary: What a step up from my previous handheld!
Review: I bought this when my (non-Sony) handheld fell on the floor and destroyed the LED screen. Then I bought this which fits easily into my pocket, has more RAM, great graphics, sound and software.
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Summary: I BOUGHT TWO IN AMAZON AND THEY BOTH DIDNT WORK
Review: Im very disappointed, I bought two 615 Clie, one for me and one for my associate from Amazon. They both didn't work!! they both could not beam or recieve information. I mean I can understand one comming out wrong but BOTH? I called Sony Support and they suggested we return the product. ...I'm willing to change my review but up to now Im disapponted at the Clie and Amazon, you guys need better quality control!!
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Summary: great product
Review: so much better color than a palm. and expansion w/ memory stick up to 128 mb. worth the price better than palm.
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Summary: Lookout Palm...Sony wants the title!
Review: I conveniently "lost" my Handspring Visor recently and decided to get a color pda to replace it. I pretty quickly narrowed it down to the Sony Clie PEG-T615C and the Palm m515 (the new "improved" version of the Palm m505). Once I got to the store to check them out in person, it was NO CONTEST! The resolution on the Clie is outstanding...vibrant colors and a very smooth look. The m515 is choppy (you can see the square pixels, as opposed to the smooth resolution on the Clie). Next is the "feel." This is obviously an individual preference, but the Clie feels much better in my hand. It is narrower and slightly longer the the m515. The m515 is too wide and Palm has gone to this goofy curved-point edge that just makes it feel more awkward. The Clie also feels more solid than the m515, even though it is slightly lighter.
Beyond that the two are fairly similar...same OS, same processor, etc. The Clie PEG-T615C comes with a nice software package, including WordToGo, which imports word documents. The program for viewing digital pictures is nice and has some nice features. The pictures look great (so good that I took the pictures of my son out of my wallet...I just show everyone the pictures of him on my Clie!). I also like the fact that the hotsync cradle also serves as the battery charger. The battery does seem to have a pretty short life though. My other complaint is the toggle switch in the center, which is difficult to manuever. There is plenty of memory, which can be expanded with a Memory Stick. And the processor is surprisingly fast. All in all, I love it and recommend it highly. The complaints are very minor compared to the highlights. Sony has put together a superior machine.
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Summary: Great PDA
Review: Hands down, this beautiful color screen is the easiest to read. I previously owned the Handspring Visor Prism, which comes with a color screen, the low resolution of which left my eyes smarting in no time. I decided I needed a PDA I could look at for more than a minute. The Sony T615 boasts 16 MB of memory, which is expandable by means of the Memory Stick. The only downside, for me, is that the wired modem that Sony sells is not compatible with the T-Series. (The Handspring is compatible with a SpringPort 56K modem, so it is easy to check your E-mail when travelling without having to worry about expensive wireless fees and international standards). If there were more accessories for this great device, I would give it 5 stars.
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Summary: It crashed and I returned it
Review: I had an unfortunate experience with my T615. Everything was going well the first night, after I'd charged it and installed the software. The remote commander was especially cool and useful. However, the next day, I had problems sync'ing. I remembered reading about performing a soft reset. Still no sync. Then I did a hard reset. When I did that, it never got past the "Palm Computing Platform" screen. Instead, whenever that screen showed up, it would say that I had a "fatal error" and allow me to press a button to reset. I was stuck in an endless loop. Eventually, the Clie stopped working altogether. I've had a Handspring Visor Edge for over a year. It's not colour and it doesn't have a universal remote app, but it's never crashed and I can rely on it. All of the Clie's bells and whistles are pointless if I can't even get it to start up. Speaking of bells and whistles, the previous high end Clie, the N760C, had a built in MP3 player. The T615 requires another [money] attachment to play MP3s. I cannot understand why they did this, except maybe to encourage users to buy more attachments.
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Summary: Screen problems
Review: On my first unit, the screen backlight burned out within two weeks; the second one would not display anything after 5 days. Both were replaced cheerfully; but after the second, I decided, rashly, to migrate to a Compaq Ipaq 3800 series.
I still miss the Clie 615, though--it was easy to have around, more accessible, with a well-integrated software package. The Ipaq exposes one to the Microsoft morass of incompatibilities and inexplicable freezes and shutdowns (my Ipaq right now will not display any images at all--despite the fact that I have limited memory use to a minimum).
Knowing Sony, theyt will solve the screen/display problem, and then the 615 will be perfect.
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