Comments on: CNET previews the Sony UX180P http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/ Sat, 26 May 2012 06:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JonGh http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43991 Tue, 16 May 2006 11:16:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43991 Scott, I have a Dell Axim x50v and did give it a go to watch movies bbut didnt enjoy it, I prefer a larger screen. I also use a Toshiba M200 which has a great screen. To me the UMPC sits snuggly between the two but its probably assmall as I’d like to go.
I have to admit to changing my opinion slightly having seen the new Sony and OQO pics. They seem a very similar size so perhaps I was a little too hasty.

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43992 Tue, 16 May 2006 06:22:19 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43992 JonGh, I watch movies on my Palm TX — which works great, much better than an iPod video — and it only has a 4 in screen.

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43993 Tue, 16 May 2006 06:19:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43993 On one of Sony’s Japanese sites, there are a dozen or so short flash videos showing this thing in action. JK will be happy to learn that one of the videos shows them setting up the built-in stand on the back.

:)

]]> By: JonGh http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43994 Tue, 16 May 2006 05:36:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43994 Sorry,
don’t like the look of this at all. The new Origamis (is that what we are calling them now?) look much sweeter. Fair enough they don’t have a keyboard but the screen is much more usuable and to be honest I don’t think every reviewer has grasped that these machines probably won’t be used for typing huge text documents. I envision the UMPCs being used for their media capabilities and wireless web browsing. This device from Sony seems neither here nor there and by that I mean the screen is two small to watch a movie or to type.

For me the UMPCs are much closer to James’ original concept for a mini-tablet.

]]> By: scoobie http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43995 Tue, 16 May 2006 02:38:48 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43995 Great movies of the device to play here:
http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Special/U/Movie/movie.html?param=27

]]> By: Aaron Walker http://gigaom.com/mobile/cnet_previews_t/#comment-43996 Mon, 15 May 2006 23:24:41 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/cnet_previews_t#comment-43996 Okay. So what the hell is this thing and who is it for? Looks like a new style PDA to me with a fingerprint reader. Not that that would be a bad thing. PDAs could use a little more style.

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