The Clie NR were a series of handheld
personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a handheld PC, is a variety mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in partic ...
s (PDAs) made by
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
, announced in March 2002. These devices were distinctive, due a folding "Flip-and-Rotate" clamshell design, with a vertical rotatable screen.
Models
PEG-NR70
The Clié PEG-NR70 was a
Personal Digital Assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a handheld PC, is a variety mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in partic ...
(PDA) made by
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
. The device ran
Palm OS
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ...
(version 4.1) and featured a color display, thumb-sized keyboard and
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...
/
Atrac3 playback with a built-in speaker; features which were uncommon among other PDAs of its time.
Specifications
*Palm OS: 4.1
*CPU: Motorola 66 MHz MC68SZ328
*Memory: 16 MB DRAM
*Display: 320 x 480, 16bit Color
*Sound: Internal audio amplifier and speaker, Headphone out.
*External Connectors: USB
*Expansion:
Memory Stick
The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. In addition to the original Memory Stick, this family includes the Memory Stick PRO, a revision that allows greater maximum storage capacity an ...
*Wireless: Infrared
*Battery: Rechargeable Li-Ion
*Size & Weight: 7 oz
*Colour: Silver
PEG-NR70V
Otherwise identical to the NR70, the NR70V added a 0.1MP (320x240 pixel) stills camera to the device.
See also
*
Sony CLIÉ NX Series The Clie NX, were a series of handheld PDAs made by Sony, their first running the Palm OS 5.0 operating system. They had a clam-shell form factor, with a vertical rotatable screen. Most of these models also had a rotatable camera built in.
Models ...
: The NX series succeeds the NR series.
*
Nokia N93
The Nokia N93 is a smartphone from Nokia, part of the multimedia Nseries. It was introduced on 25 April 2006 and released in July 2006. It runs on Symbian OS v9.1 and the S60 3rd Edition interface. It was the most advanced camera phone from Nokia ...
, a cellphone with similar form factor
References
External links
Detailed Specifications of the PEG-NR70
Sony CLIÉ
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