Sony's Next-Gen Mylo PDA, Not Only New Design

• Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Gadget, Mobile 3G, Sony Ericsson, YouTube

Next-Gen Sony Mylo (Mylo 2), a PDA of sorts with a slide-out keyboard and is designed primarily as a portable instant messenger device. So, for anyone who lives their life online with multiple social circles and struggles to get enough time on their home computer, Sony’s mylo 2 communicator supports the popular web entertainment applications of a PC, in a pocketable broadband device.

Available in black or white, with a back-lit, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, this wireless broadband device connects to open Wi-Fi networks using 802.11/b and /g standards. But Mylo 2 wasn't just a Sidekick knockoff. Namely, it wasn't a phone at all. Mylo 2 used Wi-Fi to access the internet instead of the cell phone network, though Skype was available if you really needed to make a call

For starters, the web browser is impressive. With support for Flash, you can use the Mylo 2 to watch YouTube and other web videos, something few other handhelds can do. We're talking the full YouTube site, not the iPhone's stripped-down version. A camera adds a 1.3-megapixel lens to the mix, complete with editing software. And, of course, AOL Instant Messenger is now supported. Flash-based game downloads are also on tap.

With Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, the mylo communicator gives you full access to many of the odd and outrageous videos posted on YouTube and other popular Flash-based Web sites. The device can also upload and download content to and from the Web using the touch screen interface on its 3.5-inch high-resolution display.

“With the rise of social networking, people are making more friends and staying closer to the ones they have,” said John Kodera, director of marketing for personal communication devices at Sony Electronics. “And while they’re chatting and posting to their personal web pages, they’re listening to music, playing games or surfing the Web. The new mylo communicator combines these fun parts of your PC in a portable device so you can stay connected when you’re away from your home computer.”

You can also keep Facebook photos fresh with the communicator’s 1.3 mega pixel camera and photo editing software. You can resize, write captions or draw on photos and post them from the device directly to most social networking pages or blogs whenever you are connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot.

With the mylo communicator you can also log into existing AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype accounts to access contact lists, while sending and receiving multiple messages at the same time.

When there is just too much news to type, you can make free Skype-to-Skype voice calls to more than 246 million other people who use Skype. You can use SkypeOut to make inexpensive calls to landlines and mobile phone numbers anywhere in the world.

The new communicator comes with 1GB of internal memory, with the option of adding up to 8GB of additional storage with Memory Stick Duo media. You can use this memory to store additional flash games, digital music files, video files, image files or news summaries downloaded from the Internet, or imported from your computer or digital camera.

The device supports Windows Media DRM 10, so users can store and play music that has been downloaded or purchased from compatible online stores and subscription music services. It plays MP3, AAC, ATRAC or WMA (secure and unsecured) files. You can watch MPEG4 simple profile and MPEG4/AVC baseline profile video transferred to the mylo communicator via USB from a PC or downloaded from the Web.

Regarding the available widgets, Mylo 2 users can also register to become developers with access to the information they need to create their own widgets. Developer registration will be available at the end of the month at http://www.sony.com/mylo. Personalized widgets created for the device can be shared on this same site. /pr

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