Don't wanna wait for Sony to complete
their teaser campaign to peep that Vaio they're trying to generate some buzz about? Don't worry, jkOnTheRun has got you covered (well, maybe). According to site founder James Kendrick, a "reader who wishes to remain anonymous" sent him a number of pictures of this supposed ultraportable Vaio, which do indeed feature all of the disparate components visible in Sony's brief Flash movies. Besides portraying the device as a
UMPC-style tablet with sliding QWERTY keyboard, one of the pictures clearly shows the words "Bluetooth," "WLAN," and "WWAN" on the screen's bezel when viewed full-size. We can also make out that fingerprint scanner from the teaser campaign, as well as a MemoryStick Duo slot and a "capture" button, although if that Motion Eye doesn't swivel, it won't make much of a camera. Of course these pictures, even if genuine, reveal nothing about the actual guts of the machine, so Sony still has several important details such as processor types/speeds, operating system (a return to PalmOS, perhaps?) and storage system/capacities to hold over our heads. More pics are available by following the "Read" link...
posted May 14th 2006 7:00PM
They seem to be calling it the UX micro PC.. a spin on the ultra mobile pc? (they can't use UMPC if it doesn't feature tablet OS)
Confirmed.
New teaser video up at the Sony Site. They are calling this the "UX Micro Pc".
A little birdie told me that this unit is going to be branded as a "UX" series (similar to the old Clie' units), that it will indeed have 2 cameras on it, contain a Cingular "Edge" compatible card inside, 4.5" screen, 30 GB hard drive, 512MB ram and 1.3GHZ Intel ULV processor. It will run a full version of Windows XP, with compatiblity with Vista. The screen will be a touch screen as well. The screen slides to reveal the keyboard beneath. Expect to see it in June-July at a computer retailer where "We Get It."
I have a vaio pcgsrx87 (10 inch) and this baby is incredible.
waiting for the price of this umpc. hope it will be raisonnable. 2000$ ???
whoa...looks sweet but am I going to be broke?
Hopefully Sony will really take the proprietary road and give us a Symbian device with telephony here.
Think about it Asher, true multi-threading, black-berry-like email, ability to read and edit word, Excel and PP documents...read pdf's. True HTML email, landscape web browsing with Opera Mobile V8. Really useful battery life (more than 10 minutes) and months without crashing....Yeah, a real mobile OS!