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Sony Mylo personal communicator Digital Media Player

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Product Description: Sony Mylo personal communicator

  • Instant Messaging. Web Browsing. Music. Pictures. Videos. Imagine all the fun things you do on your PC, concentrated in the palm of your hand. Introducing the mylo personal communicator. It connects to open 802.11b WiFi networks anywhere in the world. So you can get away from your desk and roam your wireless network. Or step out to a coffee shop while staying in touch...
  • Instant Messaging. Web Browsing. Music. Pictures. Videos. Imagine all the fun things you do on your PC, concentrated in the palm of your hand. Introducing the mylo personal communicator. It connects to open 802.11b WiFi networks anywhere in the world. So you can get away from your desk and roam your wireless network. Or step out to a coffee shop while staying in touch with your friends. Or move around your campus from the dorm to library. The mylo communicator is about fun, convenience and near-instant gratification wherever there's WiFi access. IM is easy because of the built in QWERTY keyboard. There are no monthly service fees. So you can chat, talk and share with your friends nonstop. And the mylo communicator is made to multitask. You can play your tunes while you IM, email or browse the web! The mylo name stands for My Life Online. And Sony puts it right under your thumbs.
  • The unique What's Up screen is an at-a-glance overview of your choice of friends, showing who's available for IM or voice calling. The What's Up screen also displays what music is currently being played.
  • Reach friends on three of the fastest-growing instant messaging services: Yahoo!, Google and Skype. Use the Info button to switch among multiple IM conversations.
  • Send and receive email with many of the most popular web mail clients: Yahoo! Mail, GMail and more. The slide-out QWERTY keyboard means you can type without the hassle of the repeated key-presses you'd need on the number keypad of the typical mobile device.
  • The mylo communicator allows you to browse virtually any HTML website allowing you to scroll horizontally and vertically through the page, fit to the QVGA width of the communicator screen or you can zoom in to display Web pages at full resolution or zoom out to fit pages to the width of the screen (50%-150%). Mylo communicator's Web browser is HTML not WAP like the browsers found on many portable devices.
  • Skype lets you enjoy free Internet phone calls to and from any Skype-enabled device, anywhere in the world! Or SkypeOut to any phone number for a nominal fee.
  • The mylo communicator plays back MP3, ATRAC or WMA (secured and unsecured) audio formats. Play music you've purchased from many online music stores. Perfect for multi-tasking, you can listen to music while you IM or surf the Web. With Sony's Ad Hoc communication mode, you can share your play lists and stream songs directly between two mylo units-one at a time.
  • Enjoy MPEG-4 personal videos on the color screen. Transfer files to the Memory Stick Duo media card (optional) or by Sony's Image Converter software (optional).
  • Mylo communicator's Lithium-ion battery life offers up to 3.5 hours of talk time in Internet calling, up to 7 hours Web browsing and up to 45 hours of Music Playback.
  • Download and view hundreds of JPEG pictures from the Internet or from your digital camera. Transfer pictures using the supplied mylo Image Transfer software, by dragging and dropping or via an optional Memory Stick Duo media card.
  • There are millions of WiFi hotspots including over 15 million American homes, almost every university campus, plus shopping malls, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, hotels, airports and border-to-border coverage in a growing number of U.S. cities. Enter your current location and the mylo communicator will direct you to the nearest of over 20,000 free and pay public hotspots in the U.S.
  • From: Transfer pictures using the supplied mylo Image Transfer software, by dragging and dropping or via an optional Memory Stick Duo media card. To: Transfer pictures using the supplied mylo Image Transfer software, by dragging and dropping or view from an optional Memory Stick Duo media card

Product Specification: Sony Mylo personal communicator

Screen Size:2.4 in.
Wireless Technology:Wi-Fi
Weight:5.3 oz.

Pro Reviews: Sony Mylo personal communicator

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    Sony mylo

    Today Sony drew a bead on the portion of the youth market which is hopelessly addicted to instance messaging by announcing the mylo personal communicator, a new handheld device which combines Wi-Fi capabilities with QWERTY-enabled instant messaging, VoIP capabilities, Web browsing, photo and video display, and (of course) a music player. The mylowhich stands for My Life Onlinewants to be the new "must-have" device, unseating the famously-trendy Sidekick. As a device, the mylo sports a 2.4-inch 320 by 240 LCD display, 1 GB of flash memory (supposedly upgradable to 4 GB), mini-USB connectivity, a Memory Stick Duo slot (after all, this is a Sony product!), integrated 802.11b wireless networking (supporting WEP and WPA-PSK) security), and a lithium-ion battery offering up to 45 hours of music playback, 8 hour of video time, and up to 3.5 hour sof VoIP talk time. Add to that a DC input for charging or running "wired" with the AC adapter, a 10-pin headphone/microphone interface (an adapte... Read more

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