First look at Sony's new TH55 Clie handheld

Bargain PDA has some first thoughts on Sony's recently released Clie PEG-TH55 Palm handheld, the one with built-in WiFi, 32MB of RAM, and a built-in low-res digital camera. So far their big complaint about the TH55 seems to be its ergonomics:

In the TH55, Sony continues their holy war against usable buttons. What is with these people? They seem to go
lightyears out of their way to design button arrangements that are as poor as possible. In this case, its four tiny
bars along the bottom of the screen, left and right buttons placed with the jog—barrel?—and back button on the top
rear of the case. What the hell? Okay, I can understand that Sony is trying to make their scroller ambidextrous, but
I never had a problem operating a left-mounted jog dial with either hand—less trouble, certainly, than a backwards
roller will cause.

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