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User Submitted Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Handheld Reviews (cont...)Date: 2004-05-26 State-of-the art handheld by Sony! I have used Palm Vx, Sony Clie T625C, Sony Clie NX70V, Compaq Ipaq 3970 before this great little laptop; palmtop! With UX50 you do not need to have a laptop computer. Palm OS 5.2 runs without any problems. Memory is sufficient and can be expanded easily. Best is that you will not have to use the expansion slot for a wi-fi or bluetooth card. You will be very much satisfied with this palmtop computer. Date: 2004-05-08 looks nice but too much trouble at the end Ok I bought this Clie ux 50 thinking it was going to be fairly simple in setting it up with my wireless lan at home. Well I was wrong!! On my first day in trying to set up my clie with my Dell wireless router I encounter some problems. It wasn't working. I called Sony customer service and they tried to help me out but no one could figure out why it wasn't working. Talking to Sony for the fourth day, a sony tech. told me that it might be that my router might not have a new firm ware upgrade and that I need to call Dell to find out how I can go ahead and get a new firm ware update. As most people know calling Dell is not so simple. It took me 5 hours to get to talk to some one in Dell and it took me another hour for them to help me set up the firm ware upgrade. Once everything was done I tried to get my clie ux50 to link with my wireless router and AGAIN IT DID NOT WORK. Once again had to take my time to call sony and let them know that the firm ware upgrade did not work. (Bare in mind this was my sixth day talking to Sony about this problem) After talking to Sony they decided to take me to the next "higher" lever of Sony Tech. but they were not open on the weekends. So I had to wait until Monday for someone from their dept. to call me. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon , now the 7th day with this problem, I received a call from Sony's tech. I spent one minute with him, all he told me was that my Dell wireless router 1184 was not compatible with Sony Clie. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! sO PLEASE BE WARE ALL BUYERS AND ESPECIALLY DELL BUYERS My only gripe about this device (actually, PalmOS in general) is that it doesn't support Unicode/CJK. Granted, not many people take notes in Chinese on their handheld, but it is a Internet-enabled device, and it would be nice if the device can view non-English sites (say, if you need to pull some anime lyrics down in Kana format while online with it). Sure, there are solutions abound for that, but they either cost a serious amount of money or need a serious amount of hacking that would mean voiding the warranty of the product. Word has it that both Symbian OS and Windows PocketPC edition supports Unicode. Why not PalmOS? In a nutshell, it's a nice device, but don't expect to use it for reading anime lyrics in Kana format online. You are unable to delete applications such as the "clie demo" and others which prevents you from using that portion of memory and clutters the screen with an icon you don't want. The included mail client is not able to display most message types and forget about attachments they are all called file.bin so you can't save and view them.
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