[HN Gopher] Complete Visual Guide to Sony CLIE (2000-2004)
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       Complete Visual Guide to Sony CLIE (2000-2004)
        
       Author : Avshalom
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 11:42 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ntw1103 wrote:
       | Cool to see this posted. I've always liked, and now miss PDAs.
       | 
       | The picture marked as NX70V is actually an NR70, which you can
       | tell from the rounded camera, and rounded power button. The
       | NX-70V was square. The NR70 also lacked the compact flash card
       | slot.
       | 
       | I have an NX-70v, and specifically got it for the CF card slot.
       | The slot was only intended to be used with a wifi card that Sony
       | released, but with an OS patch, you could use regular CF cards,
       | which were much cheaper than Memory sticks. So I bought a third
       | party memory stick Wifi card, and used the CF for storage.
        
       | aceazzameen wrote:
       | I completely forgot I used to have one of these. I had one of the
       | monochrome models, but not entirely sure which one. I honestly
       | didn't get as much use out of it as I thought I would.
        
       | mysterydip wrote:
       | I saw the UX50 in a camera shop in Japan (don't remember if it
       | was bic or yodobashi), and I wanted one badly. I ended up with a
       | sigmarion III (which I still have!), probably for the larger
       | screen, but that design was peak mobility for me at the time.
        
       | sixothree wrote:
       | I had that T425. It was a gorgeous little device with a flip
       | cover lid. You could feel at the time that everything about this
       | era was building to something not quite achieved. Every device
       | was a series of limitations, frustrations, and longing for
       | something better.
        
       | 51Cards wrote:
       | I still have my NX80V tucked away... LOVED that device. Went
       | everywhere with me. I still think the folding design with the
       | flip around screen and rotating camera was one of the most
       | flexible devices that I've ever owned. If I recall I had a WiFi
       | card for it too that used the back expansion slot. Even the
       | charge stand they had for it was well thought out and made the
       | device usable while sitting on your desk. I should hunt down a
       | replacement battery for that thing sometime and fire it up. I
       | stopped carrying it when I got my first "modern" Windows Mobile
       | touch screen cell phone.
        
       | savy91 wrote:
       | I still have my NZ90. The hardware was amazing, the software not
       | so much
        
       | bambax wrote:
       | I used a Sony Clie UX50 in 2004. I watched a whole movie on it
       | once, and remember thinking it was incredible to be able to do
       | that on a mobile device that small. I used it during meetings to
       | note appointments and such, and most people were amazed. The main
       | problem was battery life, which IIRC lasted about 60-70 minutes
       | max (for the movie it was actually plugged in).
       | 
       | I still have it! Although I haven't turned it on for a very long
       | time. Not sure what I should do with it now.
        
       | avidiax wrote:
       | I used one of the later models throughout college. I heard my
       | model (Sony CLIE T625C, IIRC) was very popular with doctors. It
       | had a nice aluminum case and leather flip cover, a really solid
       | lug that I used to attach a pocket watch chain, and all day
       | battery life and some nice free games that were way better than
       | snake on the Nokia 5100 series.
       | 
       | For someone with undiagnosed ADHD, it was a lifesaver for keeping
       | track of assignments and due dates, settings alarms, etc.
       | 
       | Even the desktop software was at least decent, particularly
       | compared to horrible experiences like iTunes.
        
       | bangaroo wrote:
       | I had the NX60 and stupidly, in the throes of a frustrating move,
       | threw it out to make space. Of all the stuff I tossed, that is
       | the one thing I regret all the time.
        
       | giobox wrote:
       | I really miss the range of designs and ideas we used to get in
       | the PDA market, there was so much choice 1993-2003 etc. The
       | iPhone rightly changed the thinking on these devices, but it
       | brought a lot of (IMO relatively) boring homogeneous design
       | language + ideas across the industry too.
       | 
       | Maybe it was inevitable the physical design of everything compute
       | becomes a slim slab of relatively featureless glass, I still miss
       | the variety greatly.
        
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