Sony CLIE PEG-VZ90

Juniper Foo | Sep 17, 2004

Sony may have committed Xenocide by withdrawing its CLIE from the rest of the world. But this has only added an unattainable allure to the PDA, which is still very much alive in Japan. Sony's latest eye candy, the PEG-VZ90, ups the X factor by sporting a slide-out console of multimedia controls, an OLED screen, and a CF card slot (surprise, surprise) alongside the usual Memory Stick bay. And given its multimedia pedigree, this device plays MPEG-4 video and holds tunes in both ATRAC3 and MP3 formats. If you're planning on being a smarty pants by ordering it direct from Japan, the VZ90 runs only Palm OS 5.2.1 Garnet, the Japanese edition. Hontouni zannen ne (too bad).

Click here for: slide-out console | side angle | docking cradle | press release

Price: US$860
Availability: Japan, September 24
Device: PDA
Basic specs: Palm OS Ver.5.2.1, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, Wi-Fi, Sony’s 123MHz ARM-based CPU, 3.8-inch OLED display with 1000:1 contrast ratio, up to 12 hours on MPEG-4 and MPEG-1 playback, and up to 42 hours on ATRAC3 or MP3 playback, 109 x 87 × 23mm, 270g

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