November 7, 2004
More & Better Toys from Sony
I love my sony laptop but oh boy..... This looks extremely interesting. A 1 lb. pocketable PC / media player built with Sony's special sense of style. The portable keyboard is external but the unit has a touch screen panel for stylus input. There is no information on the Sony web site yet.
The U-series is still not on their web site, but you can buy an Xmas themed burgundy T-series notebook, available on-line only. I assume they are only making 1 or two of these boys...
Extremely small form factor PC's as going to be a real trend. Last month the OQO debuted to much fanfare in the geek world.
It looks like the OQO might be more usable, because the keyboard is built in, and not external. On the other hand, I am pretty familiar with Sony devices and I know two things about them: (a) they are shiny and (b) they are constantly revamping their product line, so in a few months this version will disappear to be replaced with something else.
What did I tell you! Sony's already updated the itsy bitsy thing! The picture at this link is larger and clearer-you can see that the interface is in Japanese. Since the original product isn't even available in the US yet, I wonder if this update will be? My current notebook was getting jealous, so I upgraded it's memory to 1GB. The surgery went well.
Posted by Trigger Tech at November 7, 2004 12:31 AM Permalink
