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Sony PEG UX-50

Sony Japan has just announced the newst Clie in their PDA lineup. As seen from the picture, the design of the unit has gone through an interesting change. Rather than having the portrait orientation, now it has the landscape orientation (thus 480x320 screen rather than 320x480). It also now sports a new keyboard as well (hopefully this one will be practical and useful). The unit also supports both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. I believe this is the first Palm OS device to support both wireless protocols internally (i.e. built-in). I can't comment on the screen since I haven't seen one personally, but hopefully Sony used a transflective screen (just like Palm Tungsten C) in the unit. The unit also has a built-in .3 megapixel (640x480) CMOS digital camera. The unit has 22MB of ROM, but unfortunately, the unit only comes with 16MB of available RAM. It will go on sale in Japan on August 9. There was no information about how much this will cost though. This is an interesting evolutionary upgrade, and we will have to see how well the device performs once we have in our hands.

If you know Japanese, you can read about it here