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Sony CLIE PEG-NR70 Handheld

Sony CLIE PEG-NR70 Handheld

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best yet!
Review: This is my 5th PDA (3 Palms, and one Visor Prism prior) and the speed, quality of construction, screen resolution and overall design blow all the others away. The only drawback is that Sony has chosen to neglect the Mac market, so I am forced to sync with my PC. I love the Clie software that comes with it (MP3 player, picture viewer and even the paint). The virtual graffiti screen is awesome. It shows the strokes as you make them which has greatly improved my accuracy. Now only if more apps would take advantage of being able to minimize the graffiti area to make full use of the screen. It seems as only the picture viewer does this.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Memory Stick Gets "lost"
Review: This is the slickest handheld to date. I fell in love with the PEG NX70V/U in a nano second when I first laid eyes on it, and I went ahead and got one. Looked cool when I used to take pictures and then stored them on the memory stick (MS). Thats when the trouble began.

I did a not synch and connected to my PC. The Clie did its thing and suddenly there was a bar across the memory stick, so I waited till the synch stopped. Took the Clie out of the cradle and reset it. Still no memory stick on the icon tray, even though the 128 Meg stick was still in. SO I did a hard reset, wiped the handheld and the memory stick was found ! Did a hot synch again, and it could not be found.

Sent it back to Sony for repair, they sent it back with a new MS. Case closed. Hmm, so is set it up and it found the memory stick. Now for the real test, I did a hot synch, and the memory stick disappeared, and the line went through the MS on the icon tray. I just shipped it back to Sony for repair AGAIN...

If they can fix this minor problem I may even be able to use the wireless NIC I bought as well.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Memory Stick Gets "lost"
Review: This is the slickest handheld to date. I fell in love with the PEG NX70V/U in a nano second when I first laid eyes on it, and I went ahead and got one. Looked cool when I used to take pictures and then stored them on the memory stick (MS). Thats when the trouble began.

I did a not synch and connected to my PC. The Clie did its thing and suddenly there was a bar across the memory stick, so I waited till the synch stopped. Took the Clie out of the cradle and reset it. Still no memory stick on the icon tray, even though the 128 Meg stick was still in. SO I did a hard reset, wiped the handheld and the memory stick was found ! Did a hot synch again, and it could not be found.

Sent it back to Sony for repair, they sent it back with a new MS. Case closed. Hmm, so is set it up and it found the memory stick. Now for the real test, I did a hot synch, and the memory stick disappeared, and the line went through the MS on the icon tray. I just shipped it back to Sony for repair AGAIN...

If they can fix this minor problem I may even be able to use the wireless NIC I bought as well.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: great device...for a spell
Review: with a laundry list of features and improvements, the sony nr70 is by far the most impressive palm os-based, if not all handheld os-based, devices.

unfortunately, there is a fatal flaw with the device that has seemed to have plagued many owners after 2-4 weeks of use. the memory stick connectors on the nr70 is loosely constructed which is exacerbated each time the device is used. by the 2nd-4th week, the device will no longer be able to detect the memory stick.

many forums and mailing lists have documented this problem and the only permanent solution is to open up the device, thereby voiding your warranty, and putting in material to compress the memory stick compartment to ensure contact with the memory stick...


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