Sony now accepting Dash pre-orders, shipping April 15th
By Donald Melanson 
posted March 2nd 2010 12:53PM
posted March 2nd 2010 12:53PM
Sony's Dash "personal internet viewer" may have prompted some slight confusion and eventual disappointment when it was introduced among all the tablet madness at CES, but it's since turned into a decidedly more interesting (if slightly less portable) device, and it's now finally available for pre-order directly from Sony. As expected, it runs $199, and Sony promises to start shipping them out "on or about" April 15th -- just in time for that credit charge to get lost among the small fortune you owe in taxes.
yay for hyper sophisticated alarm clocks. mine is 6 years old. sign me up :D
@skyblaze
oh yeah, and as far as taxes go... i didn't owe shizzle. got a big ass refund instead. and skrew credit charges, i play it safe with my check card. pay with what you actually have, kids.
@skyblaze i dont know about this one. why is the bottom part so long with no screen? u-g-;-y
personal internet viewer?
Doesn't it not have a battery?
XD sony. terrible company. *looks at the PSP Go*
Seeing that the competition is literally 'expanding' nowadays, would have been interesting if there was some psp mixed into this.
"personal internet viewer"
Is that a rebranding of "kitchen email station"? That one was surely a roaring success with the consumers.
The tech geek in me wants one badly, and all it would be use for is a glorified alarm clock lol
Does this support flash in the web browser?
@VelvetRingpiece it runs adobe flash apps. you can create your own flash apps and load them on the device. see link: www.sony.com/dash
@Kaze9 apple's is cheaper, because it does not exist in same category....
like chumby better :)
@Kaze9
Last time I was at the store, apples were less than $1, unless you want one of those delicious honeycrisp apples
If it'll play my music off my server, sign me up. If not, no good. I guess we'll see.
I like this and the chumby,
however picking a chumby (chumby vs chumby one) is very hard because each has their own advantages/drawbacks.
I can definitely see this in my kitchen and maybe the bedroom, but I wish the google voice app had a dialer on it! it can only listen to voicemails right now.
Not really interested in the netflix/movie streaming aspects. I could see updating my netflix queue though.
People are knocking it, but this is what every digital photo frame should be. And those sell like hotcakes on the holidays.
Geez... here we go again, Sony. Another seemingly good idea, totally 100% proprietary from top to bottom, with no potential for being really useful to any appreciable degree, and then dropping it on people. I need to find that Onion.com video for the Sony "Device That Does Absolutely @$@#!!$ Nothing At All" because this one is sure close to it.
In today's world of iPhone OS (in spite of Apple's lockdown) and Android (the only real "touch" UI that matters anymore other than the iPhone OS), it's amazing that Sony would dare bother producing something like this: a product that's dead in the water before it actually even hits store shelves.
Sad, but true. Maybe someday they'll learn to stop kneecapping and hamstringing themselves with such products. And I miss my MiniDisc, I really do. It could have ruled the world of portable audio for 15+ years, but Sony locked it down with so much proprietary crap in spite of what it was capable of.
Amazing they keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again... the Energizer Bunny has nothing on 'em.
@bbzGhost
Actually, I hate the bunny. Battery prices have only gone up, and they don't seem to last as long as they used to. Whatever happened to the economies of scale for making batteries? As time passes, we expect them to get cheaper and/or better. Energizers seem to cost more and not last as long as before.
@bbzGhost I was thinking the opposite this time. This one isn't proprietary this go round as they have licensed the content from Chumby. So I was reading this as an new step for Sony to go outside for a change.
@bbzGhost - see sony website (you can create open source apps!): http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644696007
"small fortune you owe in taxes"
its like your speaking to me!
The only problem is that you have to use their proprietary Internet.
@timmy2000 - this is pasted from sony's website: Can't find the perfect app? Create it yourself. dash apps are open source code, which means you can build and share your own apps with the dash community.
i guess it is up to you to create an app to utilize the proprietary internet :-)
Sony products are always proprietary. Somehow, the use of Chumby doesn't make it better.
Read the reviews on Sony's own site (sonystyle . com) about the ICF-CL75iP which is the forerunner to this. The big problem with it is the software, and this one seems to have an upgraded version of the same software.
Crashes all the time.
@skoochy - it is definitely NOT same software. dash runs adobe flash, ICF device does not
I might be in for one. My office desk deserves one.
I still wanna know how good or poor the sound output on this thing is. If it sounds as good as a Squeezebox Radio, then I'm sold.
Given its form factor though, I'm thinking that's unlikely. Still looks like nice little gadget though.
Bathroom browser for FTP.(ForTehPoo)