Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sony's PEG-SJ22 features all the hallmarks of classic Sony design; while not going over the top with the range of included applications, it does represent good value for money. Anyone wanting to spend less than £150 on a PDA has until now had a strictly limited range of choices; however, Sony has addressed this with the release of the SJ22. The overall size and weight of the unit is diminutive, and it should slip comfortably into most pockets. The hardware is barely larger than the screen, which at 55 mm x 55 mm is the same as most Palm PDAs. A few millimetres on each side and at the top of the hardware are all the casing allows, with a little more than 20 mm at the bottom to accommodate four application shortcut buttons and a tiny rocker for scrolling around. This latter button is a tad fiddly to use, but there is a jog dial wheel and a Back button on the left side of the casing, which between them make the rocker pretty much redundant.
Running Palm OS 4 and driven by a Motorola Dragonball VZ running at 22MHz, the Clié PEG-SJ22 has adequate power for most general PDA users. Its 16 MB of RAM should accommodate most contact lists and diary databases, and if you need to add more memory there is a Memory Stick slot. The 320 x 320 resolution display is clear and easy to read, and battery life is competent for a Palm at this price, with Sony quoting up to 12 days for the average user who makes 30 minutes of usage per day usage with backlight set off.
Sony provides a smaller range of applications than you'll find on some of its more expensive PDAs, but the range is nevertheless fairly good, and includes PhotoStand and PictureGear Pocket both for viewing digital images, the Kinoma player for watching digital movies, CliePaint for drawing your own graphics and World Alarm Clock. --Sandra Vogel
