Not yet managed to calm down the talk of T-series of handhelds from Sony as the company was back on the market presents a novelty, but such that shocked even the worldly-wise professionals. New models Sony PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V - an attempt to squeeze out the maximum of Palm OS, which it generally is capable of. So, do not hesitate for a minute, go to the technical characteristics of new products, by the way, they differ only by the built-in digital camera model with an alphabetical index «V».
Thus, as seen from the photos, made a new computer as a "clamshell". At the top of the screen is at the bottom - a standard set of hardware buttons Palm (where much without them!) And a full keyboard. Individual deserves a compliment screen, capable, at a resolution of 320 x 480 pixel display 65000 colors. While this display - the undisputed leader in terms of resolution among handheld computers.
The screen rotates around its own axis, and a PDA may, at the request of the user, developing as a keyboard and a besklaviaturny.
NR70 - the world's second series of computers based on Palm OS, which has a virtual (ie, retractable) area of graffiti, the first was of the same company HandEra PDA. It is strange, as Sony has allowed himself to get ahead of this ... I wonder what full-screen resolution is only used in several programs, such as, for example, images, in all other cases, the graffiti area on the screen will not retract. Well thought out and the other option: the virtual keyboard appears on the site of graffiti and lets you enter both letters and numbers and special characters.
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We see that for an open standard keyboard will "house" menu and search moved to the bottom row, which is also constantly displays the time and battery status. Both models operate on a processor Motorola SuperVZ c 66 MHz, has 16 megabytes of RAM and 10 rewritable flash memory. Judging by the number of flash memory, Sony, of course, creates the foundation for the future use of these computers, a new version of Palm OS. Both PDAs have built-enhanced infrared ports, slots, MemoryStick, corporate governance wheels Jog-Dial to the button back (back) and mp3-players. The most interesting thing that the player is based on a separate chipset and allows you to listen to music while working in other programs. As in the 700-series player supports MP3 and ATRAC3 frequency of 44.1 kHz, and bitrates ranging from 32 to 256 Kbps. ATRAC3, unfortunately, only works with cards specially protected technology MagicGate. Management is carried out with unpretentious three-button keypad on the headphone cord. There is also an option to disable the screen during music playback. NR70 has a built-in lithium-polymer battery, which, according to the promises the company will provide operation of the device within 10 days when used 30 minutes a day.When playing music this time will be 7 hours with the screen off.
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The camera is equipped with a model NR70V CMOS - a matrix size of 1 / 6 inch and is capable of taking pictures at a distance of 30 cm to infinity. Shutter button is on the left bokovinke connecting the display and keyboard. The camera stores images in a format PGPocket in three possible resolutions 320x240, 160x120 or 88x88. While both models are available only in Japan at very good price NR70V - $ 465 and NR70 - $ 385. Not immediately stipulate that these prices have absolutely nothing to do for love or money new items will be sold in Europe, and even more from us. Now do not clear when NR70 go beyond Japan and whether it will happen in principle. Maybe they will remain "internal" experiments by Sony, and we see only the following model is a new, fifth version of the Palm OS - for Sony not rust, that's for sure.
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Finally some good news for owners of Sony Clie. Almost simultaneously with the company Palm Sony released a Bluetooth module in a format cards MemoryStick. In my subjective opinion, it is slightly more pleasing than the equivalent from Palm - one feels that the designers worked on it and not too lazy to mount the transmitter in a small little blue LED - blue after all, a tooth, then:) The energy can, spend a little more, but but it looks like! Again, while it is unclear when the miracle comes to Russia, but the price he will have a very decent, because even in Japan, this gadget can be purchased for $ 150. The authors, translation:
Alexander Eremeev
