Rumor: More Details on Sony PEG-N610C/V (Updated)
Another webstore has posted more details on the Sony PEG-N610C/V. According to Insight, the forthcoming handheld will run Palm OS 4.0S, have 8 MB of RAM, and a color screen. They also say it will have MP3 playback capabilities. They are selling it for $400.
This product has not yet been announced by Sony but it first appeared on the CDW webstore yesterday along with another unreleased Sony product, the PEG-S320. Insight doesn't have anything on the S320.
Update 1: The N610C/V has been removed from the Insight webstore.
The Insight product description contains at least one mistake. They refer once to the PEG-N610C/V's 480 by 240 pixel screen, but then later say several times that its resolution is the same as the N710C's, 320 by 320.
Insight doesn't mention one of the most important facts, how many colors the N610C/V can display. It was discovered recently that the only thing preventing the N710C from displaying 16-Bit color was that it was running OS 3.5. As the new model is using OS 4, which does have support for 16-bit color, the N610C/V might be able to display 65,000 colors.
The size and weight of the N610C/V listed by Insight are the same as the N710C's.
Update 2: When asked for more information on these new handhelds, the PR manager for Sony's handhelds said, "All I can say at this time is that we are not ready to make a formal announcement, but once we do, I'd be glad to share that information with you and your readers."
Thanks to Mike Cane for the tip. -Ed
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Note that there is no memory stick mentioned
RE: PC Zone has it listed too.
RE: PC Zone has it listed too.
RE: PC Zone has it listed too.
Insight mentioned that it has a Memory Stick *slot*. No mention of an included Stick.
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RE: PC Zone has it listed too.
RE: Trimmed Down Version
Insight Mistaken?
this is hillarious
-Bubba Gump
RE: this is hilarious
It looks like their description was supposed to be broken up into paragraphs with subheadings. For example:
Memory Stick expansion slot
Virtually unlimited storage for applications, images, and data content.
Jog Dial navigator2
Access your information on the fly with the easy-to-use Jog Dial navigator
Other than that it isn't too bad. Anything I missed?
RE: this is hillarious
The battery is "rechargable."
Although the "Product Weight" is 5.65 oz, the "Weight of Product" is 1 lb.
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Has anyone put in a pre-order here or from CDW?
New products bane for the Palm OS
This is just like how Palm hurt Vx sales
RE: New products bane for the Palm OS
Just like Palm and Handspring, Sony now hand a handheld represented at the different price and market ranges.
1. The N710C is the top-of-the-line PDA
2. The N610C (and N610V?) will be the middle of the road PDA
3. The S320 will be the lower end of the PDA market.
I think that SONY has done a fantastic job, offering a variety of choices.
The only hurting in the Palm market will be Palm itself. The N710C at $450-$500 and N610C at $350-$400 will absolutely kill the m505 and the m500. The S320 at $188 will offer some stiff competition for the m100 series.
A little drama:(mostly kidding of course)
Sony smells blood!!! With Palm in its weaken condition, Sony is going in for the kill and will take away the Palm OS as prize.
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http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=1352&MODE=FLAT
Check your facts please!!
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RE: New products bane for the Palm OS
The story in the desktop market has always been, "you wanna buy a computer? wait 6 months, prices will be cheaper then"
You know what? Sometimes you just need to buy something. The people that waited on the 505, then waited on the 330, and 710, and now choose to wait on the newer clies will find that handspring or somebody will leak news of fall models so the sos keeps going on. What are they going to do? Wait their whole life for the perfect product to be produced, or do what I do and upgrade every two years and be satisfied with whats out at the moment?
I upgraded to the Kyocera 6035, but I fear that this and the Samsung palmphone coming out at the end of the summer (oh yes, more vapor) will be dropped by the Wireless Service providers because they (verizon, sprint) don't have the ability to handle technical questions, and because of that they'll find that the customer returns make the phones unprofitable to sell. I'll be ok with that so long as bluetooth has taken hold by then.
David in Pflugerville, TX
as hard as I try
oh well, what else should I do? WORK!?!?!?!
It's Gone!
RE: It's Gone!
http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/2089285620/web/result.html?a=s&f=p&t=A&d=clie
It's not a rumor!
At least we know now it's not just a rumor.
http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/popup/connectandcreate.pdf
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My 2 cents,
Joe Schmo
RE: It's not a rumor!
Isn't that what Arnold Schwarzenegger said to that classroom full of kids in Kindergarden Cop?
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It's a good way of segmenting. Now they can reach two different levels and beat the m50x series til Palm gets blue in the face.
RE: It's not a rumor!
BTW, the Sony promotional page where the coupon link is from mentions only 710. I guess Sony tries to be quiet about the 610 but thinks it's cheaper to include it in the coupon now instead of reprinting the coupon when it's out.
http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/promotion_connectcreate.htm
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As long as Sony announces the N610C soon then this won't have much of an impact. But if they try to sit on this story for months, buyers will hold off until they know all the facts.
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Sony is so big that it can affort a leak like this, they may even encourage the rumors because the N610C may affect N710C sales, but it also could affect the sales of Palms.
If these new Clie's are anything like the quality of the N710C, Palm is in serious trouble. Unlike Handspring with their sprinboard slot or HandEra with their dual slots and engineering innovations, Palm has nothing unique to fall back, their OS 4.0 is a combination of its licensees, its form factor is old, its SD slot technology and color screen is borrowed from Sony and Handspring.
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PC Zone has it listed too.