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- Reviewed on: 08/08/2006
Upside: The Sony Mylo is Wi-Fi enabled (802.11b) and will search for available networks with a touch of one button. Once connected, the Mylo can help you instant-message friends and make VoIP calls, as it comes preloaded with Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and Skype. It also supports Yahoo and Google Web mail clients, which it accesses via the Opera Web browser, so it has some e-mail capabilities.
The Sony Mylo wouldn't be much of a messaging device without a QWERTY keyboard, so we're glad it's equipped with one. It lies beneath the screen, which smoothly slides up and clicks into place. Though we had only a brief time with the Mylo prototypes, the keyboard layout seems spacious enough and the buttons tactile. (We, of course, reserve the right to change our judgment after we put the final product through its paces.) The slider design allows the Mylo to keep a compact form factor, measuring 4.8 by 0.9 by 2.5 inches in its closed state and weighing 5.3 ounces, so it won't add much bulk to your backpack. The Mylo's 2.4-inch TFT screen is a sight to behold. It shows off 65,536 colors at a crisp 320x240-pixel resolution, and we were quite impressed by the great picture quality as we watched some sample video clips on the device.
As you might have guessed, the Sony Mylo can play video (MPEG-4 format) as well as music (MP3, ATRAC, and WMA files). There's also an image viewer with support for JPEG, PNG, and BMP file formats. To store all these files, the Mylo has 1GB of flash memory and comes equipped with a Memory Stick Duo expansion slot.
Downside: Though the Sony Mylo offers many goodies, we think there are some important and noteworthy omissions. First, for such a youth-oriented device and one that Sony is touting as "all about fun," we're completely disappointed by the lack of support for and inclusion of any games or a built-in camera. And though you have access to Web mail, the addition of an e-mail client would have made this messaging device that much nicer and useful.
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