Comments on: More Tidbits About the NR Series

Justin - www.JTSoft2001.com

You may have to wait till the next new model is out before Sony drops the price. Period.

However, Sony might not drop the price significantly before the next model -- perhaps a $50 drop, which is their pattern. Then they'll discontinue it for the next generation at the old price point, or higher.

Also, that isn't the Bluetooth Memory Stick. That is Palm's Bluetooth SD card. Close, but not the same thing.

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With Future Shop selling it at $250CDN, you can bet that the price will drop very soon. It's at a premium right now because it's only been a few days. Give it a few weeks, and it'll get closer to the wholesale price.

Ingram Micro is the wholesaler I'm talking about, and Future Shop actually orders alot from them, so I'd be willing to bet that this is their exact cost.

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If you sing in french while hopping on one foot, the evil birds won't come out of your bathroom mirror.

http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/0203/12/panel.mov

(the above link is originally in the article:
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/0203/12/n_fmclie.html )

Dave is a Japanese and a moderator in SPUG. The unit he has was purchased in Japan.

You can see that most of the news appeared in PIC, will sure to appear in SPUG website (www.spug.org) the next day.

I have an M505, and I was actually thinking of the NR-v as an update for my system. I love the larger screen, I don't like the size, I love the Camera. But, at that price... hmmm, I am going to have to think a bit more on it. At $475.00 I was a go... but..

I still think it is a great item, even though most (some) people will find it to expensive/large/etc. it is beautiful to have something like this available for me.

Thanks Sony!

nategall says "blah!"

Yeah, THERE'S a compelling argument: "Trust me."

Sorry if you had a bad experience with Palm, but you really need to learn how to SUPPORT your positions. You come across like an idiot with comments like this.

On any given day, different users will call different companies' tech support with different problems and get different tech people with different skills and knowledge and attitudes. Where's the double blind test that would "prove" something? 100 people call Palm and 100 people call Sony and say they can't sync their T615/M515 on Palm Desktop 4.0.1 and EVEN THEN, if you get a fix, do you measure how long it took, manners of the tech, knowledge, care, nice phone voice or God knows what else? Isn't a long, rude, fix better than a short polite, "can't help you"?
I've had both great and lousy tech support people at EVERY company I've ever called. So what? No one can legitimately or fairly generalize.

I don't know what "vote" ("ten years in a role [sic]") the earlier poster was talking about, but I never got my ballot - did any of you?
Once again, this is just stupid sniping. If it costs more than you'd like to pay, don't buy the damn thing. I'd like a Maserati, but I'll have to make do with my Nissan (and don't ask about THEIR customer support).

The S-Series is also here to stay.

The N-Series (w/mp3) is being phased out, being replaced by the NR-Series. Why is this a problem? No real needs have been abandoned.

You want strictly professional budget Clies, get the S-Series. Still the same.

You want sleeker, hi-res, professional Clies, get the T-Series. Used to be the n6XX...

You want a toy, you get the NR-Series. Used to be the n7XX... Yes, it's an item that will appeal to many, but be bought by few. So what?

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If you sing in french while hopping on one foot, the evil birds won't come out of your bathroom mirror.

No thanx!

Yes, the sidelight was pretty dim compared to other models, but the screen was pretty easy on the eyes. The 505 screen, even with the sidelight off, had a better contrast ratio than most monochrome devices. That's not my opinion, that's the test results from Peter's Pilot Pages. I have upgraded from the 505 since then, but I have to admit that I was unable to find any lighting conditions that made it difficult to read. In the situations where I could not read a mono device no matter how I turned and twisted it, the 505 was always viewable. You just never had enough sidelight to impress anybody.

Oh well, that's history now. It's kind of funny,.. I meet all kinds of PDA users on my job and when they see my device they think it's a 505, but when they see the screen, they crank up their brightness as high as it can go before letting me see their device, then turn it back down when they get it back. Isn't it funny how we try and impress each other? Yes, I do the same thing at times. Funny creatures we are...