http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Problem is it's not a phone.]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Thats a phone?
It looks like a factory defect lol]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Its a PDA, its not a phone]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
But, if you really do, you can have mine.]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 10th 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 10th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Keep in mind that came out in 2003. What phone did you have in 2003?

In 2003 iPods didn't even have color screens yet. They had barely moved away from physical buttons an click wheel (anybody remember those?)
The Motorola RAZR was still a year away.
Bluetooth in a phone was unheard of, the tech itself was only a year old.

Sony could probably build this PDA now with 3G and half the price. The big question would be what OS it would run...]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
had the ux-50 as well. incredible device. first item i ever sold on ebay, too. ah, tech memories...]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/The Touch Pro 2 keyboard is better. Try one out sometime.]]>Mar 10th 2010 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 10th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
I find it more amazing it came out in 2003, at the time phones were only just starting to get low res cameras and poor colour low res screen

it amazing to think this has the same resolution screen as an ipod touch, plus infrared, bluetooth, wifi, memory card slot, camera etc]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/At any given times, there are always extremely advance technologies available, but manufacturers usually have to cherry pick what features they want to keep the bulk and the price down. With the NZ-90, Sony said damn affordability and portability, they were gonna throw everything in there but the kitchen sink. But ultimately that's why it flopped.]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/I wouldn't say Sony's Clie line necessarily failed, so much as Palm, and the entire PDA market failed. Its amazing that none of those PDA makers successfully transitioned into the good smartphone makers, including Microsoft.

But it does show that Sony is willing to adopt other OSs instead of going it alone; just like they did with Palm, Linux, and even BeOS. Hopefully we'll see some cool Android and ChromeOS devices from them inline to what they added to their Clie line.]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Worst decision ever. Now I can't get rid of the thing.]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
P.S.- I only paid $100 for it. But still.... Mylo was a bad choice.]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Yuck!

Anyway Sony could use a bit of focus. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
And you didn't even get to the worst part:

" -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide."

Only HE can provide? That just sounds pompous even if it is technically probabilistically true.]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
I'm not saying I disagree with you guys...but you don't have to read it if you don't want to... :P Just sayin'... ]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
You guys are just jealous because you didn't buy one in time. pfft. :P

I'd rather have the Mylo instead of something like an iPod touch. The Mylo has a much better screen, a keyboard, flash player, etc... really you don't care about apps when you have a nice flash player. :D

I think they shouldn't have canceled it. :(

They should at least bring it back but make it REALLY awesome. :D At least, make it essentially the same, but a bumped processor, a large HDD, and windows 7. :D They could rule the micro computing world. :D]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
totally]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/A phone with the UX-50's form factor would be awesome.]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/HTC Universal.]]>Mar 10th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
When Steve Jobs held up the first iPhone at MacWorld 2007, I thought he was holding up the TH-55. The iPhone has the same screen resolution, same screen size, and tablet format as the TH-55 3 years later. Put the TH-55 on a diet, cripple Bluetooth, add a phone radio, remove the buttons, update the screen technology while keeping the same size / resolution, and you have the iPhone hardware which was released three years later. The Clie had a nice camera, was solidly built (still use it today), and came with NetFront as the standard browser. NetFront did an excellent job with 2004 era full web pages, and was the first browser I used that displayed a shrunken version of the full webpage. It would probably have a problem with 2010 era pages, but it did a fine job on current webpages of the era. The only problem with the NetFront browser on the Clie was sometimes a large page could not display fully due to no available memory, but at least in my experience, that did not happen often. Memory was expensive in 2004. I was so pleased with the NetFront browser on the Clie, I purchased several; versions for my WM devices.

The NetFront browser offered several viewing options so you could usually display most full webpages, and still read single column pages with a comfortable text size without any horizontal scrolling. The iPhone / iPod touch still has a problem displaying some single column page with a comfortable text size without horizontal scrolling.

If Sony does get back into the arena, it would be good for all assuming they are as innovative as they were with the PDA's.]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
The TH-55 also did a nice job with video. The "handheld engine" processor along with a DSP, displayed 30 frames a second video quite well while delivering good battery life. I purchased the separate Sony Clie video recorder which recorded TV or any video source directly onto memory stick vs. video tape, or hard drive.

For years, I recorded my favorite programs to a memory stick while I was out. The next day, I inserted the memory stick into my favorite Clie of the day to catch-up on my favorite programs. I used the memory stick video recorder with the UX50, NX70, NX80, and TH-55. You could also use the memory stick video with a Mac or PC, since Quicktime could display the video.as well.

It was a sad dad when Sony left the PDA business like it was a sad day when Toshiba left the WM PDA business. They were both the innovators on their respective platforms.]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/I had the TH55 too, after my SJ33. But I had the European version, which had Bluetooth! Cool thing was: you could send SMS messages right from the TH55, and when someone called on the phone and BT was turned on, the contact (with image, which almost none of the phones at that time had) showed up on the TH55's display.

And yes, that's what I thought of when I saw the iPhone in Steves hands! Had the iPhone come a little earlier, I wouldn't have had to switch to windows mobile, hehe. -- yes I would, of course. Until the iPhone 3g that I have now, which in the first days of using it strongly reminded me of my TH55, not only for the form factor, but for the app switching process as well.

I remember standing in front of the NZ90 in the store and playing with it, yeah that 2MP camera was great. Still, the TH55 is in my opinion the best PDA of all time. OF ALL TIME! ;)]]>Mar 10th 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
I regularly tethered the TH-55 via Bluetooth to a small SE phone which worked well. I used it mostly for data, don't really use SMS.]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Those PDAs came out the same time as the Palm Treos and everyone was like "Sony, put a phone in that thing and you've got a sale". But they never did a PDA with a phone, probably so as not to compete with Sony Ericsson... facepalm... I mean facesony...]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.global-e-world.com

Those PDAs came out the same time as the Palm Treos]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/
Wow, for a purported Sony fan, you didn't even read the article. That's the Clie NZ-90, friend, not a phone concept.


On another note: "In short, the innovations became less compelling and eventually stood in the way of." Of what? That's bushleague editing, Gartenberg.]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/entelligence-aiming-high-or-another-mylo/Mar 9th 2010 9:28PM