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...)

Couple of issues - the screen resolution, while just a number (160 x 160) is a little poor....Instinctively, I was looking for the screen backlight in the hope visibility would improve.

Other than that - typical palm navigation - the jog dial is useful. The packaged software - a lot of it expires in 30 days ...you will have to pay afterwards !

Date: 2002-07-16
Lacks "hold" button...
I have a PEG-S320, the precursor to the S360. The clie is a good value, in many ways better than what Palm has to offer, but it has a couple of design flaws. Sony can be kind of arrogant in its cost-cutting:

- There is no "recharge" indicator LED on the unit or on the power adapter. There is the lighning bolt that appears when it is turned on, but an indicator light on the power plug would be useful too.

- There is no hold button, so the Clie spontaneously discharges itself in your pocket. This has happened to me a number of times. For some reason the buttons are just especially easy to press by mistake.

- In my particular case, the Clie stopped working after about 6 months of light use. It just would not turn on. Sony tried having me recharge/reset it, but since there is no indicator light, there is no way of knowing if the problem is with the AC adapter or with the unit...

Date: 2002-07-12
Maybe Would Have Liked It If The Power Turned ON
Mine arrived as scheduled, but the power would not turn on. I had it charged for over 8 hours, and I felt the Clie get warm (so the battery was charging). After letting it charge, it would not power on. I did soft and hard resets and called Sony Tech Support. It was good support 24/7, but the tech said that he'd "run across the problem before." - Seemed like he was understating the number of times this happened. My advice is that this is a great product, but I'm going to buy it at a local retailer to make sure this won't happen again. I read on cnet.com another person had the same problem with both of the S360's he bought.

Date: 2002-07-11
Review of Peg-S360
Only thing I don't like about this unit is the screen resolution. At 160x160 you can't get enough text on the screen to efficiently read ebooks. In this price range, 160x160 is standard, so, it's not a surprise. However, the 415 Clie did have a highres display, but did NOT have 16MB Storage internal. I've got about 12MB in use by productivity apps and a few games. Most of it's being used by Docs-To-Go and a Dictionary, both of which are not very necessary but are handy to have.

PRO's: LithIon Battery (rechargeable), IndiGlo type Backlight
CON'S: Screen Resolution, hard to find accessories (clie brand isn't widely carried like other PALM devices).

Date: 2002-07-09
Mis-advertised
First Sony product that was a big disappointment. Perhaps it would be satisfactory if I'd been able to get it to work, meaning hot-sync to my computer.

After wasting a lot of time, shipping it back to Sony for examination, getting it back, then wasting more time with their technical people, someone there decided that since my computer was originally set up as a Windows 95 machine, and that even though it was upgraded to 98 a year ago, some elements of 95 might remain and therefore the Clie was incompatible with it. Their recommendation that I buy a new computer so my Clie would work with it pushed the limits of outrageousness.

A little research showed that Palm and Visor products do work with 95, so those companies assure me there would be no incompatibility.

Sony--why don't you advertise this peculiarity so other people don't waste so much of their time and yours!

Roger