| Fast Forward Video Live Online: Sony's Clie NR70
With Personal Technology columnist Rob Pegoraro
Monday, May 6, 2002; 2 p.m. EDT Like any other Palm-based handheld, Sony's Clie NR70 handheld keeps your schedule, address book, to-do list and notes. But it also plays music, takes pictures with a built-in digital camera and even controls your TV, VCR and stereo. The NR70 incorporates a tiny keyboard, as an alternative to writing out letters in the Graffiti handwriting-recognition alphabet. Its high-resolution, color screen flips up from that keyboard and can then rotate around its axis. So not only can you show other people what's on the screen, you can close the NR70's lid but still use the screen, now facing out (and with the display magically switched around so it remains right-side up). What's not to like? It's a little bigger and heavier than other Palm handhelds, even if it remains astoundingly thin. And it's pricey, at $600 for the top-of-the-line version and $500 for a version that leaves out the built-in digital camera. And many users don't actually need this many functions in a handheld gadget in the first place. Join Rob Pegoraro as he demonstrates this device and talks about other handheld computers, such as Compaq's iPaq. Read Pegoraro's full review One Big Hang-Up About Sony's Clie (Post, May 5). Editor's Note: Washingtonpost.com moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most relevant questions for guests and hosts; guests and hosts can decline to answer questions.
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