Sony U50 Review

[bkbroil]

Gizmodo has posted a review of the ultra-ultra portable from Sony, the U50. This is not a PDA, it has a full Windows XP operating system but man it looks cool.
The Sony U50 is a tiny computer, a byproduct of the continuing Japanese admiration for tiny things -- someday they will fit a working machine into an acorn, and you'll be able to play Spider Solitaire on it -- and filigrees the entirety of a modern notebook, minus any optical drives, into a dense, compact brick, a little larger than a paperback; maybe Reader's Digest size, if twice as thick.
There's no doubt the 900MHz Celeron-powered U50 is an impressive device. I flaunted the U50 at a BBQ, thrusting in into the hands of my friends, enjoying the almost inevitable response, as they at first reckoned it an over-large PDA, next noticed it was running Windows XP Pro, just like a real computer, then discovered more and more features, usually set over the edge with the knowledge that, inside, lived a 20GB hard drive. "No shit?" I heard quite a bit, and my good friend John Sandy stood cradling the U50 for a good ten minutes, noodling with its various features and pausing only to periodically look at me and mouth, "Wow."

[jkendrick]

It sounds like the reviewer is very keyboard centric so I don't think he'd like any portable device that depended on handwriting. It is a problem I think would be solved by the Tablet OS, if he ever tried it as the handwriting recognition is very good in WinXP SP2.

[mobilexile]

wow, that looks like a nifty device. well, except for the price.