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Here’s come the new CLIE (Translated to English). The PEG-UX50 sure is the latest Palm device, as it have both WiFi and Bluetooth built in. As any latest gadget would do, it got a digital camera too.

The PDA has somethings different:

• Laptop look alike instead of traditional PDA’s palm shape.
• Build-in WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, digital camera. You could only get either WiFi, Bluetooth or DC with Palm Zire 71 or Tungsten series.
• 480×320 resolution with 65K color depth. I wonder would most of Palm application looks OK on the screen? Most of Palm applications are developed for resolution 160×160 or 320×320.

Sony has always come out with some elegant design with their CLIE PDA. And it’s pricey too. Take you have to pay RM1000 to RM1800 for any Palm with either wireless capability, how much would it cost if it combine both? But without doubt, it’s an answer to those always wondering “why isn’t there a device integrate all the hot features?”. Integration, no innovation. I couldn’t believe the default RAM capacity is 32MB. What could you do with 32MB? Palm PDA nowadays is no more the same as 2 years ago. You could still run a lot of application with 16MB but not storing. It ain’t enough to store images, MP3, eBooks, dictionary…etc. So why not make it 128MB, after all you have merged the expensive wireless capacity?

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