Sony Mylo user reviews (black)

Pros Intuitive/easy to use. Easy access to web at airports avoiding hassle of powering up laptop. Skype access keeps international roaming fees on mobile phone to a minimum. Access to music and video a

Cons Keyboard is a little cramped until you get use to it - I don't carry a Blackberry. So this was new to me. More on board memory required.

Summary With 4GB Duo Stick a much more useful device than a Nano. Skype, GTalk, and Messenger nice differentiator. Can browse, listen to music, and IM for hours and hours - impressive battery life. Skype voice quality is excellent. Great all round device.

Pros comes closer to the standard japanese type communication device

Cons No cell phone, no gaming, no UMD

Summary Seems to me that adding functionality to the PSP, even if it were a second, plug in type device, would have been a better choice.

Pros skype - if you can get a connection

Cons It fails on connectivity - music - video

Summary I really wanted this device to work for me - it has my killer app - Skype. If fails horribly.

1) Connectivety - Only works on the older b wireless standard. Yet when it scans for networks it will pick up all the g signals. Buried in the arcane user manual on page 90 it confirms this. OK but it is stated on the box that it only works on the b standard. Fair enough but why show me for example 10 networks which I have to test individually since the device cannot distinguish the difference. BTW most networks are g.

Video - Want to import a non-mpeg 4 video - the Mylo software is grey here. Why because you have to buy their addon software for $20 should you want to convert through Mylo. Oh, don't have a dualcore machine as that software says results are unpredictable. I haven't tried to drop an MPEG-4 video into the device through windows yet.

Audio - welcome back to that crappy SonicStage. Awkward interface that refused to import from MyMusic folder insisting on scanning my entire machine despite pointing it to that folder. I really dont need to see MS system sounds in my music list. Unless you decide to use their music store or Atrac format files - why bother - I have my ipod

Things I have done with my Mylo - imported a background picture and connected 1 time in NYC. I have failed to connect about 10 times (not finding networks despite being in high signal area - err midtown NYC). Made 1 Skype call after 30 minutes of trying to find a signal

Software is clunky.

I decided to take a chance on this and become an early adapter. The burn still has me on fire. Sony use to be an innovative company with great products. That changed several years ago. This product just illustrates how far off the mark they still are in every imaginable way.

The great shame here - is what this device could have been.

Really save your money - this funcionality will be duplicated by another manufacturer that hopefully 'gets it'

Pros The Mylo is very pretty,

Cons I was very very disappointed.

Summary I was excited to get this beautiful piece of equipment. I have only bought Sony in the past, from cameras to computers. So how could i go wrong when reviewing all the past Sony PDA's are some of the highest ranked. So I bought it. I thought wow, this thing is cool, Great keyboard, picture is wonderful, video was great. But that is it, no calendar, no msn messenger and as far as i know right now you can not download software. Needless to say i returned it the first chance i got. Idea and style is wonderful but Sony taken this and ran it into the ground.