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Sony Clie PEG S300 The Start Of Something Wonderful
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Күн бұрынWhen Sony entered the PDA market they chose Palm OS (I do wonder how the pocket PC would have evolved under Sony) immediately adding new functionality to the hardware and improving upon the software supplied by Palm. The result was a long line of innovative handhelds which all started with the Clie PEG-S300.
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@TheKsax 4 ай бұрын
5:50 That was Memory Stick to Floppy Disk adapter not minidisk, I got one, but it isn't easiest thing to use. Only works with direct access floppy disk drives, no USB floppy disk drives for me to read my memory sticks.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for letting me know! I knew there was an SD to floppy but wasn't aware that Sony had done the same thing with a memory stick 😃
@TheKsax 4 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing They were meant to be used with sony cameras, to transfer photos from MemoryStick to computers before days of USB. I am sure it works for pda too, but i mostly saw them in camera context. It was a transtitional gadget during Mavica cameras, which recorded directly on floppies.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
@@TheKsax That would have been a great gadget at the time! Its probably like the SD to floppy though where you need special software on the PC to use it
@TheBasementChannel 4 ай бұрын
Sony was such an exciting company back then
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
It really was, 1999/2000 we had the second launch of Minidisk, Sony had a line of MP3 players and digital photography was just starting to take off and the Sony design team were doing great things!
@pupi-pupi 4 ай бұрын
Yeah, it had a feeling of the great tech future to come (sad trombone)
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
@@pupi-pupi It was an exciting but somewhat short future before all the great design just disappeared from Sony and they stopped making premium quality products and started making ordinary stuff...
@DIGITAL_DECAY.EXE_ 4 ай бұрын
Sony really pushed Palm OS to its limits. They were way ahead of their time!
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Honestly I doubt Palm would have survived against pocket PC if it wasn't for Sony pushing the OS and Palm slowly taking note!
@pupi-pupi 4 ай бұрын
Ooh, that sound at 16:20 unlocked some of the memories
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Yes the diddle-dee of hot sync starting 😊
@kurtiunlisted8589 4 ай бұрын
Yayyyy, another fantastic Palm OS episode, thank you 😊🙏
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for supporting the channel!
@dmitryrecomserv7621 Ай бұрын
Good video, thank you! As far as I know, the European version of S300/E has a 20MHz processor, opposite the 16MHz processor in the US model S300.
@HandheldComputing Ай бұрын
Good to know, this didn't come up in my research 😊
@tomhoots 4 ай бұрын
"I have one of these." Well, dagnabit, I absolutely CAN NOT find the dang thing. I've got the cable, got the cradle, and I've got every cell phone and gadget that I've ever owned. I don't get rid of them. But I sure can't find my Clie. Some day when I move out of this place, perhaps then I'll unearth it. It was certainly my favorite Palm device, before I moved on to cell phones and other things.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Sadly I didn't keep most of the devices I owned so have been buying them again over the last 10 years... One day it'll turn up and then you just need to replace its battery!
@Unan1mouz 4 ай бұрын
I was really amazed back then that we can even view pictures on a monochrome screen... 😂 There were also some PDAs that can take pics using such screen!!
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
OK I must admit back in 2000 I thought being able to take images on your clie was pretty ground-breaking... but not so much now and honestly at the time Pocket PC did a much better job!
@user-yg2mx3pr1i 4 ай бұрын
Radical
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it 😉
@onawhim8366 4 ай бұрын
Nice
@HandheldComputing 3 ай бұрын
Yes it is 😃
@retronoby Ай бұрын
Great review. I really like the purple color scheme, there were VAIO laptops and desktops using it too so it’s something I associate with 2000s Sony designs. Oh, and perhaps SGI workstations. But we can’t all like the same designs though, that would be boring. 🙂
@HandheldComputing Ай бұрын
I had to google SGI workstations but I see the similarities, it is great bit of design Sony were so good at making beautiful products back in the day 😃
@retronoby Ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing Totally agree. 😁
@WhatALoadOfTosca 4 ай бұрын
The crazy colour choice is reminiscent of some of the contemporary Sony Ericsson phones that were released at the time. What’s the crazy deal with that power adapter? It’s like the just want to make life difficult. Is there a reason for so many pins just to supply power?
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
The power adaptor is daft! I guess its so you can plug it straight into the unit but most device manufacturers would have supplied a standard 5V barrel and an adaptor. Just glad it works as they are not easy to replace
@ninjamaster3453 4 ай бұрын
Sony really banked on a memory stick ecosystem. I completely avoided using it for every other device.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
It wasn't the 1st time someone had tried to push a proprietary memory format, it wasn't even the 1st time Sony had done it, you can't blame them its a way to make a lot more money, but as history shows SD and then microSD wins....
@dosgos 4 ай бұрын
The Palm, Sony, Palmspring models were a bit confusing. I suppose there was a lot of overlap.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
Yes there was, Handspring was set up by Palm employees and was only around a few years before they went back to Palm so they all overlap a bit
@dosgos 4 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing Adding to the mess was Windows Mobile. None of that confusion helped Palm IMHO.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
@@dosgos Its true, and Microsoft put a lot of effort into disrupting Palms market hold!
@RichsRandomRetroReviews 4 ай бұрын
I do rather like the design of both the PDA and docking station. Sony don’t ‘alf know how to design stuff.
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
I think Sony had some great designs, and the colours while I may not have chosen that purple it just works! Its one of the things modern phones really lack, any thought of design!
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