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If we continue the series of epithets that are listed in the title, the more powerful, more functional and more expensive ... It's about a new Pocket PC Sony Clie PEG-NZ90. This remarkable machine is represented by Sony just, and among other PDAs distinguished by having built-in digital camera with a sensor resolution of 2 megapixels, a family of ARM processor with a clock frequency of 200 MHz and the operating system Palm OS 5.0. We can say that NZ90 - the most powerful for today clone Palm `Yes. Merits of the new machines excited and a little cart. Exact - due to modern technical solutions opportunities. And so what are these opportunities, dignity, and that so-so, life will show. In the field of PDA is not so simple as in personal computers. Powerful - yet does not mean better. We had fun watching the march of machines based on Palm OS, which is certainly the poorest in functionality - either you full sound, no graphics - Computer-based operating system Windows CE. Unpretentious, although, at times, and not cheap "joins organizers" were sold around the world, like hotcakes. Not particularly helpful in competing Pocket PC to multimedia capabilities ... iPaq, no doubt, amazingly beautiful, but we do not have the beauty of the thing we need is a pocket organizer. What happens to the Palm `s today, after the fifth version of the operating system? And it happens that the market appeared Gulliver among the Lilliputians - Sony Clie PEG-NZ90. Machine is as perfect as it is unusual. Pocket PC is not very pocket-sized ... Something similar seems to have been? Exactly - with cars. Small, nimble, truly urban avtomobilchik (say, Mini English designer Issigonis) with each new model grew up, gained a new, more powerful motor and the correct motor beast roar. In the end, he ceased to be an original avtomobilchiki and turned into an ordinary car - one of many. And there, in a herd of big cars, are quite different rules. In a herd of keyboard PDA also operate different rules than in a nice little family besklaviaturny "handhelds". Another thing is that Sony itself has long trendsetter. Can build the leaders of the past in order of size and then reduced to the outsiders. And then remember what they are, the winners-defrocked, was clever. With Sony contact is dangerous.
First meeting
Computer PEG-NZ90 thing, of course, dear. Feels handwriting Sony - which would not have released a computer (including notebooks and desktops forgotten by us), it immediately wants to have its personal use. New pickpocket changed the color of the body. Now it is not silver or even black, it - black. Visually, black nice weights machine, turns it into a dark brick. But, on the other hand, and that shy? He is - a brick. If the case can be repulsed by him from a dashing man, let alone a pocket ottyanesh - for sure ... If zasunesh, of course, that computer in your pocket.
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What exactly is the new PDA has grown in size? In terms of both halves of the hull, fastened with a hinge, remained unchanged. But the lower part of the increase in thickness - a new processor, new e-filling. Both the hinge - it is built with a lens and a photo module, which can not but rejoice with the flash - in diameter also increased. A bit, just nonsense, and those unfortunate millimeters brought the computer in a completely different "age" category. Predecessors, a series of computers NX, too, were rather big, but a new series of NZ (in fact, that this is the series rather than single model, the big question does not arise), they surpassed.When folded, half to half, the status of the new PDA is thicker than any Pocket PC ... While the elegance of its simple delights! Sony - Sony ... it's processor speed or the new "OSes" by eye could not be assessed. But immediately attracts the screen - bright camoe advantage of color patterns handheld Sony. And it is, in fact, it's bright. Screen NX90 has a unique high-resolution - 320x480 pixels. Almost square, but not square. I wonder, is it?
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Features of the implementation of the display (active matrix TFT, all the honor for the honor) - a consequence of radical improvements "photographic" component of the new "pickpocket". NX90 more cameras than any other PDA. We can say that it is an ideal symbiosis of handheld computers and digital cameras. But the ideal things do not happen. Dignity of one of the disadvantages of growing up in another. But first, perhaps, still on the merits.
Tell me - chi-and-out!
Amateur digital photography begins with a sensor resolution of 2 megapixels. Anything less, self-indulgence. Anything more is highly desirable. This is ambiguous (seemingly) a statement borrowed me from experienced photographers (in the sense of completely tronuvshihsya on digital cameras specialists who are ready for a good camera to tell any secrets to the enemy - if they had an enemy, and there were any secrets). And I totally agree with them. As in the technique of sound reproduction, where the Hi-Fi amplifier must have a reserve power, and digital photos of the sensor should have a supply of permits. The format of the finished print 10x15 is not serious. Any defect - color noise, accidentally caught in a frame object, the error in the composition - and vykadrovka preserving the print size becomes impossible, because the print only part of the frame in the same maximum (negligible household) 10x15 format without losing quality you can not.
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In the NX90 is set high (read - CCD, but not vulgar CMOS) sensor (not less than 100 units of ISO, although the details still do not know) 2-megapixel sensor. And that immediately raises the value of the computer as a tool for amateur digital photography. Maximum resolution photo module - 1600x1200 pixels. Great start! I think in future computer models, Sony will get three-and chetyrehmegapikselnye sensors. But so far, and two will be enough for the eyes. The second "photographic" plus the new machines - the already mentioned high-resolution screen. Clearly, this is not a tiny 2-inch (usually less) display a digital camera. The third advantage - built-in flash photo module. Nothing about it I do not know, just seeing the pictures that there are any. Well, thank God. Not very useful, but not a bad tool. If they do not abuse it, of course.
Our kazisto-lab-
Now for the inevitable costs, without which costs even Sony. True, this technique is easier to get used to, including its shortcomings ... How can this thing shoot? That is - to shoot, because computers NX Series cameras are in no way is not because of experience and serious work with this wonderful fotomashinkoy not. I can imagine the following situation. Open my car, turn the half of the screen to my lens photo module - from himself. Aim of the image on the screen ... And now the sun is shining. Stupid as to shoot only at dusk. That's why light painting that - light. And the light screen image is not visible. Even reflective displays are not saved. We are not shaped as letters trying to discern and build a complete picture. Here every detail is important. Serious fotofirmy, which include myself and Sony, to their cells produce a blend pull on the control displays. Seen such a Nikon Coolpix. The camera becomes like a professional medium format camera with interchangeable shaft.Force pockets full, "even though shooting is not very convenient - too increases the size camera. Well, the hood and look for the NZ90? Pocket PC does not come as a cumbersome caricature. Screen-then the CCP will be maybe more than any digital camera ... The second claim - Ergonomics. But then it can not be helped, a computer component in the machine Sony naiperveyshaya and photographic - are secondary. And it's not too difficult - to remove "pickpocket". No more complicated than a cell phone ... Well, that cameras do not embed in irons. That's where it would be torture.
Video music recorder
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All the rest of the multimedia qualities NX90 only from the enthusiasm. First - machine can not only take pictures but also shoot video. And, do not anyhow any, and in standard MPEG-1 and MPEG-4. Resolution in this case lower than that of the camera (only the central part of the sensor), but with sound (like, just do not know yet). That is, the future owner will receive not only a powerful PDA, but a good digital camera. The second - the computer can play audio files in MP3 ... Here, I would greatly rejoice not. Sony this part of their machines sells well-known twists, trying to maximize complicate piracy being the owner of the computer. Well, it's like we do - do not struggle with alcoholism, and vodka. However, the sound output only at the "ears". And rightly so, that to them - what good is listening to music through the system squeaker? Next - voice recorder. Here, Sony has implemented a fully digital diktofonostroeniya own experience. The technical specifications on the NZ90 is said that the card Memory Stick 128 MB you can "beat" to 535 minutes of voice communications - in the slow mode LP (long play), but nonetheless. Almost 10 hours a recording! It's not all. Through the "crib" sync computer can connect to your TV or VCR to watch the (rewritten) pictures and video. Given that the NZ90 works with MPEG-4, we find a pocket digital video recorder. And the computer keyboard, a slot where you can insert a network card or wireless communication module. Well it turns out a toy.
A barrel of tar in a drop of honey
Finish the story of vipers message about the cost of a new PC Sony Clie PEG-NZ90. He has not sold, but the company is already taking pre-orders on it. So, in the "first world" at the computer asking $ 800 - as they have adopted, without a cent (ie 799.99). We (the order "number of the world" tactfully omitted) will be even more expensive - the official PDA Sony does not come to Russia, and haul vanity requires certain costs. What does this mean? The fact that this toy is not for everyone. And the question is not even the cost, the question of expediency. How much are the two devices separately - a digital 2-megapixel camera (with excellent ergonomics, optical viewfinder and other makeweights) and a good PDA (with a color screen, a slot for memory cards and other things)? Here I am about the same ... The authors, translation:
Nicholas Nadezhdin