Manufacturer: Sony Model#: PEG-S3.60 Weight: 1lbs Height: .59"     Width: 2.88" Length: 4.63" Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars	Retail Price: Unavailable Online Sale Price:
Features: 16 MB memory stores thousands of contacts, appointments, to-do items, and notes Jog Dial navigator allows you to access phone numbers, notes, and more while keeping your other hand free View and edit Word and Excel documents Value-added software includes Amy Reiley's Pocket Gourmet and Pocket Vineyard, gMovie for watching video clips, and StreetFinder Express What's in the box: Clie Handheld, USB HotSync Cable, AC Adapter, Stylus, Installation CD-ROM, Applications Manual, Protective Cover

User Submitted Sony PEG-S360 Clie Handheld Reviews (cont...)

The Sony Clie Peg-S360 is the succesor to the peg-S320. It contains many of the same feature as the previous one, but has had an upgrade in memory, and also a few other features.
It is very light, 4.3 ounces and is also quite thin. It is comfortable and physically easy to use. It displays a plastic silver casing with the four shortcut buttons; date book, adresses, to do list and memo pad. It also contains an 'up-down' button in the centre at the bottom. At the top-left on the side is the jog-dial. On the top you can see the power on/light button aswell as the infra-red, memory stick slot and the stylus holder. The stylus is made of metal with plastic top and pointer. It fits in nicely with only the part showing so that you can easily remove it. On the bottom is the socket used to charge the pda and also the same socket is used to connect the cable to a pc to hotsync.

Screen

The screen is a little darker than some similar handhelds, but i have not really found this a problem. There is a backlight that can be turned on or off by holding in the power button. There is also a contrast adjuster on the lower screen area. Along with this there is a home button, calculator button, menu button and also a serach button. The screen is not to sensitive nor not sensitive enough, so using the graffiti is quite easy to pick up and just start writing.

Processor

With its 33Mhz Motorola DragonBall processor and 16MB of RAM internal memory it is put in a class with other handhelds, but not in their price range, which is exceptionally good for the first time buyer, because they will not have to start worrying about any upgrades or having to switch to a different pda any time soon.

Jog Dial

The jog dial is a very handy feature that is now being included in many pda's although not always in the base line ones, like the PEG-S360. The jog dial can be very usefull, for reading through documents, notes etc and also just in general use of the pda. Instead of having to pinpoint the stylus on the small scroll bar, and dragging it down which can sometimes be quite arqward. Aswell as scrolling the jogdial can also be used to select things by pushing it in.

Memory

If you wish to transport other documents or add extra space to the pda a memory stick is very usefull and is included in this pda. It can be used to backup files. IF you have to reset the pda, then a memory stick can be used to back files without having access to a pc. Unfortunately there is not one included with the pda, but they should not be to expensive to purchase.

Cable

You may ask yourself why then is this so cheap? One of the features that the clie does not have is a cradle. It does instead have a cable which you can use to hotsync, so nothing is lost , apart from your pda will nto be charged at the same time as hotsync so your pda will not sit nicely in a cradle, you will have to place it on a surface instead. The cable that also slots into the same socket to charge thought portable. It's plug folds down to save space.

O.S

It comes with Palm O.S 4.0. It is not the latest version of the software, but it is very similar. Other later versions fix remote bugs, which i have not come accross whilst using this pda. One of the extras on this is the attention manager, this is usefull as it reminds you of things where you have set an alarm, but have not acknowledged on your palm yet, so it reminds you.

Software

The clie comes with standard palm applications aswell as MS Gate and MS Autorun. MS Gate allows the user to view all the contents that are on the pda's RAM. You can delete and edit things here. MS Autorun allows you to run an application from the memory stick. To multimedia pieces of software included are gMovie and PG Pocket. PG Pocket allows you to view pictures in .bmp and .jpg for example. But because the pda has a monochrome screen this is not brilliant. The Pictures can also be added to the address book to one of your addresses. gMovie allows you to view movies on your pda, again not fantastic. If you are looking for something that can handle this well look into a pda with the 'pocket pc' O.S. Finaly it has Documents To Go. This program allows you to view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents.

Cover
Finnally the Clie includes a flip cover. It is attached at the top by 2 clips. It is not joined at the bottom, so it can easily be 'flipped' over. This provides protection for the screen. Ir also acts as protection on the top for the memory stick slot and the infra red and stylus. It looks stylish, sounds arqward, but its very good and easy to get used to.

Pro's
- Price
- Features
- 16MB RAM
- Jog Dial
- Weight
- Good Size

Con's
- No Cradle
- No O.S 5 Support
- Few Additional Accessories.
- Non-Conpatible With Windows 95

In Conclusion
I am a student and this was my first pda buy. I have become very familiar with it and now use it regularly. I am finding it very useful to keep organised and also having a few fun little features aswell. There are many handy applications that you can add for free that you can download from the internet or you can purchase. At this price it is a very good first buy.

Date: 2002-11-20
Don't Buy A Sony
Crashed withing 3 months. Customer service incompetent, but I suppose I have to deal with them to get this fixed under warranty. They are sloppy and ill-informed. Never had a SONY handheld before, and certainly won't buy one again.

Date: 2002-11-06
16MB vs. Memory Stick issues
I am a medical professional, and my wish PDA wish list included ability to carry large chunks of data and its easy accessibility. There, my Clie hit a snag. Some of the programs that would run off the card in my fellows' Palm m500s and Visors would only run off the internal memory in Clie, making my 32MB card useful only as database storage. One would have to use launcher programs like Launcher III to run programs off the card (and have enough internal memory to do it, too) or programs like MsMount - which made accessibility of these programs on the card tedious - and, in a fast-paced medical setting, unacceptable. The price and the 16MB make up for this shortcoming somewhat, but not when the amount of data available exceeds the 16MB. In Visors and Palms, the expansion modules and SD cards cards act like extensions of internal memory - which _cannot_ be said for Clie + its memory stick.

Date: 2002-10-11
sixteen megabytes
That's the biggest difference in this PDA compared to others out there. One thing I will say is that when you hear the word Sony, you definitely think of high quality. I have loved Sony since the first PlayStation came out. The Clié is no exception. It has a lot of space, the case is a little wasting, because I broke that within a month of purchasing mine. Be sure to buy a sturdy case for your PDA, no matter the model.

Date: 2002-09-26
dissapointed
I purchased this as a gift for my daughter. She used it for three months and then it just would not turn on. She called Sony and they had her ship it back to them. She waited another two months and then called them about the status of the repair. They sent the handheld back and it's in the same condition as before. It will not turn on. She called Sony again and several people talked her through the reset but it still won't turn on.
We're very frustrated and don't really want to send it back for repair again if this is going to be the result. We'd like to speak to the person that thinks they repaired it the first time or we'd like a new piece of equipment.
Anyway I'm not getting any satisfaction from Sony so I thought I'd try this.