Sekilas tidak banyak berbeda dengan apa yang kalian bayangkan, ada fitur Instant Messaging Internet browser, atau media player dan storage-nya, meski fitur VoIP yang jadi salah satu andalan malah kelewat. Tapi yang menarik, fitur game yang dominan dibenak partisipan justru malah tidak muncul dalam produk ini.
Sony To Launch a New Kind of Wireless Handheld for IM, Other Internet-Based Communications
By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hoping to tap into the growth of wireless networks across college campuses, other public spaces and within homes, Sony Corp. will announce Tuesday a new pocket-sized gadget for instant messaging and other Internet-based communications.
The Sony mylo, slated for availability in September at a retail price of about $350 (euro270), is a first-of-its-kind product that uses Wi-Fi networks, analysts say. It is not a cellular phone and thus does not carry monthly service fees. And though it could handle Web-based e-mail services, it does not support corporate e-mail programs.
Instead, the slim, oblong-shaped gizmo that has a 2.4-inch (6-centimeter) display and slides open to expose a thumb keyboard is specifically geared toward young, mainstream consumers for messaging and Internet-based calls, commonly known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls.
As long as a Wi-Fi network is accessible, a mylo user could chat away or browse the Web.
The mylo -- which stands for ''my life online,'' -- will be marketed toward 18- to 24-year-olds, the multitasking generation that relies heavily on instant messaging and is already viewing e-mail as passe, Sony said.
The consumer electronics giant has partnered with Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. to integrate their instant-messaging services, and is looking to expand mylo's support to other services as well, most notably the leading messaging provider, Time Warner Inc.'s America Online.
Sony has also teamed with eBay Inc.'s Skype VoIP service, which offers free voice chats for its registered users.
The so-called personal communicator doubles as a portable media player. It can play music, photos and videos that are stored on its internal 1 gigabyte of flash memory or optional Memory Stick card. It also can stream songs between mylo users within the same network, as long as the users grant permission to share their music files.
Sony is betting that mylo will draw great interest not just among college students but also among households where youngsters might be fighting over the use of a computer just for chatting or Web surfing.
''Our mylo personal communicator lets you have the fun parts of a computer in the palm of your hand,'' said John Kodera, a director of product marketing at Sony.
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