Comments on: Rumor: Color T415 in December

T=Thin

"Ahnuld" was a model T-800, if I'm not mistaken and his "hemi-metallic" nemesis in T-2 was a T-1000. I don't think the original was upgradeable, though :)

Here's what I will do, I'll get the paper white T415 and then when the color T415 comes out, sell it while the price is still high! Sweet!

Here's what you'll REALLY do: buy the paper-white, ultra-thin T415, then get pissed off when this rumor turns out to be false.

If at all, look for a T415C sometime mid-2002, at a price of at least $450.

Sony wouldn't release one new model in November, then--at a $40 difference--then a better one a month later, especially after only recently hitting the market with possibly the most dominating trio since Aikman, Smith, and Irvin.

Use some common sense...if you've got any.

I talked to my contact at Sony about the T415's screen. He described the background as being less green and more gray than the S320's and lighter, too. The phrase "paper white" certainly never came up.

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I don't know anything about hardware, but ~$100 more to enhance a near(er)-paper white screen to a color screen doesn't seem that big of a deal? The m505 is tiny and costs about the same more than the m500.

If you buy your handhelds so that you can have the newest-latest, you're always going to be disappointed. If you buy your handheld because it does what you want it to do for a price you can afford, you may get a little envious sometimes, but you'll always be as happy with your own PDA as the day you bought it.

And you'd be LOOOOOOSSSSSSIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGG MMMMOOOOOONNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY. At $340, if it's true, this unit would drive the price of a NEW m505 to at least $300 or less. Which would drive your used unit down to about $150, realistically. If you want more, hope you find a major sucker!

LOL. Same here. I've been to Hong Kong and you can get prostitute dysentery for alot less than $340.

Actually, Bablefish translates it as:

SONY approximately ‰— December, the ›’ guess coming out T series COLOR, æî cClie T415 one žé it is thin the body design and the ’A use coloring fluorescent curtain, šS approximately HK$2650- d'_'b renewal and ›€ use OS 4.1

Which I translate as:
Sometime around December, Sony will be releasing a COLOR T series palm, like the Clie T415. It has a thin body design, has a color flourescent (backlit?) screen, will cost about $340 :), has a rechargable battery, and uses OS 4.1.

check your URL, I think you may have used BablePimp instead. =>

go to babel.altavista.com
now, in the text box, cut and paste the description from brando.
now pick japanese to english. this is what I get:

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SONY approximately ‰— December, the ›’ guess coming out T series COLOR, æî cClie T415 one žé it is thin the body design and the ’A use coloring fluorescent curtain, šS approximately HK$2650- d'_'b renewal and ›€ use OS 4.1
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Hmm.. I just had Babelfish translate the whole page, and then I cut and paste that paragraph into the above post.

Even if results vary, a remote threat of prostitute dysentery as a result of using the T415 makes me hesitant to purchase it.

OK, guys, here is a "human translation" from a Chinese living in the States:

SONY will introduce T series COLOR around December. It will have a thin (slim body) design similar to T415, but will have a color screen. The price will be around HK$2650. d'_'b
Update: it uses OS4.1

FWIW

:-)

The word "renewal" does not mean rechargable battery. There's another word for that.

I think what it really wants to say is "Moreover, it will use OS 4.1"

LOL! If Sony comes out with a "prostitute dysentery" model, people will criticize the Palm m505 and Handera 330 for not offering that as a free upgrade!

I think that Brando wants to reach 3 million hits to its site. There is no color T415 this year.

Hah, the reason you got it wrong when you picked english to japanese is because it's chinese :) hence the .hk domain.. means Hong Kong ;) Some people are so ignorant of outside US borders :)

[now pick japanese to english.]
Not the first time i see this type of post ... the other one was with the Acer s10's Comments. I guess some people here can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese.

Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese, .hk whatever, you just want to argue. The new Sony Pda doesn't really have anything to do with the price of tea in china, so get on subject.

I think the new Sony will have a high-res monochrome screen, ie black and white, but not green and black.

Ha ha ha, I paid less for my n610, only $339.00,
don't think I will be upgrading soon, unless the device offered more features than just thinner... Though thinner is a rather nice feature,

Also, if you select Chinese instead of Japanese,

ß@ Flip Cover keyboard , previous yes protective Palm glowfly curtain and yes work data import and non- complex design Á¨ d'_'b

becomes:

Flip the Cover age ¡õL , ¡õJ¡õi¡õO¡õ@Palm¡õ the howling mildew is dead drunk S¡õi¡ì@ spear ¡õ bottle outer coffin J, ¤£ ¿ù ¡õ shakes ] ¡õp¡õ¨´ d'_'b

Well Palm was stupid enough to do just that with their m500 and m505 :)

But, what if the prices for the T415 stays the way it is ($299), but the color version would be $100 - $150 more, then that would make some sense.

It makes /very good sense/ to announce the T415 now and the color T415 (if it exists) afterwards...

Announcing T415 mono: reduce competitor (m500, edge) sales as people wait for the T415, since Sony doesn't really have a comparable model..

Announce the T415 color: reduce 610 and 760 sales as people wait for the color...

Also, Sony doesn't really have a long "announce time" in general before popping out a new unit... how long after the announcement did the 760 come out? (Did they even make an official announcement?)

Generally, it is 3-4 weeks between the time a believable leak occurs and Sony's announcement and/or release of a new CLIE.

> Well Palm was stupid enough to do just that with their m500
> and m505 :)

But at least the Vx hadn't been out for only four months.
The N610C came out in late June. That's too short a product
cycle. Its unprofiable and pisses off the customers.

Heard of the ipod? a 5 gig mp3 player from apple. It was just unveiled on the 23rd. The iwalk is nothing but wishful thinking. Like "it would be really cool if..." I don't think so. It would be nice but extremely unlikely. (as for the near future.)

And anyway, if the ipod has a 5 gig hard drive and is the same size as a deck of cards, why not have a hard drive for the next generation of PDAs. you could eliminate the need for ram and rom all together but it would be pricey.

Go out onto out home page and look at the lower right corner. You'll see a section called "Notable Stories". This is where Ryan and I put links to articles on the Web that are generally handheld-related but not important enough or on-topic enough to appear in a regular news article. This iWalk story has been on there since Monday.

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The iWalk is a hoax.

Are you sure it wasn't eWok?

Sorry, Sony announced it on Monday, four days ago.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2465&MODE=FLAT

Anyone noticed that you can pre-order the T415 now ...

http://www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/