WiFi + iPod Walkman from Sony

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Check this out. A portable handheld 20GB hard drive for sharing files on a wireless network. Nice.



japanese:

<a href="http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PGX/index.html"; target="_blank">http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PGX/index.html</a>;



german:

<a href="http://www.cowo.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&artid=45504"; target="_blank">http://www.cowo.de/index.cfm?pageid=254&artid=45504</a>;



google translation:

<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.cowo.de/index.cfm%3 Fpageid%3D254%26artid%3D45504&langpair=de%7Cen&hl= en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&prev=%2Flanguage_tools" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate?big+long+crazy+url</a>;



I'd always dismissed the wireless iPod rumors as nonsense.



[ 02-06-2003: Message edited by: stupider...likeafox ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    that thing is huge. ridiculously so. and is that price in the german translation euros? dollars? or is that yen?
  • Reply 2 of 5
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    [quote]Originally posted by O and A:

    <strong>that thing is huge. ridiculously so. and is that price in the german translation euros? dollars? or is that yen?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Can you say, subnotebook, lol



    [ 02-06-2003: Message edited by: KidRed ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 5
    bigcbigc Posts: 1,224member
    ....even more interesting is that a 7 foot 5 inch basketball player is the one modeling the thing. Can't wait to take that skiing! Have to put it in my back-pack instead of my front pocket though.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,561member
    Kind of bizarre. It says 20GB but the specs say that only 17GB are available for users. It is a Linux server with a WI-FI card stuck on it.



    If you look around the Japanese site you can find a flash animation about why you would use it. The gist of it is that this is a way to circumvent the IT people who block you from accessing your company server from outside the firewall.



    Why is this better than a simple portable FW HD?



    Or as pointed out above, just carry your laptop.



    It is kind of itneresting but I don't see the crying need it serves.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    [quote] and is that price in the german translation euros? dollars? or is that yen? <hr></blockquote>



    It says round about $585 plus $60 for the cradle.
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