Walt Mossberg of The WSJ and Ed Hardy of Brighthand bring us more details on the Sony’s upcoming clamshell Clies, the PEG-UX40 and PEG-UX50.
Walt Mossberg is well-known for favouring Palm OS devices, but his opinion of Sony’s latest is mixed — web browsing is great, the keyboard is roomy but “dumb” (no smart caps), and Clie Mail has clumsy attachment handling. Oh, and it’s really expensive — “If it were $200 cheaper, I’d recommend it heartily.”
Ed Hardy brings us the technical dirt. The funky 104MB memory configuration comes from 32MB RAM (half storage, half heap), 64MB NAND Flash (16MB RAM backup, 19MB OS / Apps, 29MB available storage), and 8MB of “embedded memory in the CPU” — presumably to support the built-in DSP and graphics accelerator. The “Handheld Engine” CPU design will supposedly allow the UX-series to support QVGA video at 30fps. And these are the first Sony models with keyboards to support “sticky” shift, a most welcome feature.
See also: Hot New Sony Clie.
