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Two big, related announcements are coming out tomorrow - MobileCrunch has the scoop. Sony announced its new mylo (my life online) personal communicator, a wifi device that works in any 802.11b wireless network. It allows instant messaging, internet browsing and emailing, as well as listening to music (MP3, ATRAC or WMA) and viewing photos and MPEG-4 videos. This thing is Skype enabled, and Skype is making a separate release on that functionality.
mylo has a 2.4 inch LCD screen (measured diagonally), 1 GB of flash memory and a slide out qwerty keyboard. You can have it in any color you want, as long as it's black or white. Sony claims the battery will allow up to 45 hours of music playback or seven hours of chatting and web surfing.
It also comes pre-packaged with Skype, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger and includes JiWire's hotspot directory which lists 20,000 or so wifi networks in the U.S.
Look for it in September, cost will be $350.
This could be the wifi device for Skype that we'e all been waiting for.
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Posted on August 8, 2006
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A few questions remain unanswered though. Like, will it support additional flash memory,like Sony's own Memorystick and perhaps even other types?
What OS are all these services running on? Will it be ready (aka futureproof) for 802.11n technology?
And most of all: how long until there's not only the standard Sony programs available?
Despite the fact that there are still a lot of blanks to be filled, it looks very good and promising.
Posted by Charlo | August 8, 2006 12:00 PM