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Just caught this on the CNBC site:
http://www.msnbc.com/p/cnbc/425552.asp?bt=cnbc

Any thoughts?

Buck

ZDNET has a pic of the Sony PDA on their news site right now!
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/


Looks pretty slick!

I've owned a lot of Sony products and doubt they would put out something that wasn't slick and appealing. Could be worth a look.

Buck

wow! I've generally liked Sony products (they helped my parents pay my way through school...mom works for sony ) So i can't wait to hear more about this PDA!

One thing that nobody has mentioned...
they say that Sony want's Audio/Video to play a major role with the PDA, and the memory stick should help transport all the memory required, but nobody has mentioned a speaker or headphone jack on the unit.
I'd guess that would clinch the rumour...


I guess we'll know in the next 2 days!

The "color/wireless internet/Palm OS/under-$200" PDA Sony was talking about was just too good to be true. It looks like the company is playing the old MS trick of announcing vaporware to gauge consumer interest. I was hoping that Sony was going to bring something tangible to PC Expo beyond the Photoshop mock-up stage. According to the articles listed above, Sony hasn't even finalized the hardware details of the device, so don't expect anything until at least the end of the year.

Heres hoping it connects to the PS2 ala Pocketstation...

Well I read the article on ZDnet, and this seems to good to be true, plus an under $200 dollar price tag - riduclus! - as I remember, PALM said that it would be impossible for a Palm V be color in that size, yet this PDA seems to be smaller and in color. Also it has all those mutimedia features - this is vaporware!

Oh my goodness...if Sony brings a PDA out for less than $200 that's color.....I just bought my Visor! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

And Microsoft says Sony is "playing catch-up?!" Sheesh! Microsoft are the ones playing catch-up; at least Sony is using the Palm OS, which is well-established!