The Sony Clie TJ series were mid-range

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s produced by

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, running the

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(version 5).

PEG-TJ35 & PEG-TJ25

The Sony CLIÉ PEG-TJ35 and PEG-TJ25 were released by

in 2003. These models are identical, except the TJ-35 also offers MP3 and ATRAC playback capabilities with a headphone jack. Powered by an ARM iMX-1 processor at 200 MHz, these devices ran the Palm OS 5 platform, featuring 32 MB of internal storage (23M available for user data), as well as a

Memory Stick The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory, 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 ...

PRO slot for additional storage expansion. Synchronization via

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and

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is also possible. The case of these devices appears to be aluminium, but is actually a painted plastic enclosure, with an internal steel plate providing structural rigidity. At the time or release, these devices competed with the PalmOne Zire 71. While navigation on these devices could be performed using the touchscreen, as was common for many Clie models, these devices also featured a scrolling wheel offering easy one-handed vertical navigation, which could be pressed in to select items.

Included Software

The device comes with a few applications:

In ROM

Address Book An address book or a name and address book is a book, or a database used for storing entries, called contacts. Each contact entry usually consists of a few standard fields (for example: first name, last name, company name, address, telephone numb ...

* AeroPlayer (Version 1.0S) - A

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player. *

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* CLIÉ Files * CLIÉ Image Viewer (Version 1.2) * CLIÉ Launcher * CLIÉ Memo *

Data Export The import and export of data is the automated or semi-automated input and output of data sets between different software applications. It involves "translating" from the format used in one application into that used by another, where such translat ...

(Version 1.0) * Date Book * Decuma handwriting recognition *

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handwriting system *

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* Memo Pad *

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* Pixel Viewer. An application to view Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, or PDF and HTML files. *

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* To Do List A bundle of trial software versions are also available on Installation CD-ROM.

Installation CD-ROM

= PC

= * Palm Desktop v.4.1 *

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* Image Converter * Intellisync Lite for syncing to Outlook. *

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= Palm

= * Agendus (Trial) * BDicty (Trial) * London Tube Guide (Trial) * Paris Metro Guide (Trial) * Kickoo's Breakout (Trial) * Kickoo's TakTik (Trial) * Bump Attack Pinball (Trial) *

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(Trial)

Multimedia

Music

s can be played from

/ Memory Stick PRO using the skinable AeroPlayer. Files must be stored in /PALM/Programs/MSAUDIO directory on the Memory Stick.

s with

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from 96 kbit/s - 320 kbit/s will be played. Additional

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to support

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were available for free.

Video

TCPMP could be used to watch Videos on this device. The files can only be played from

/ Memory Stick PRO.

PEG-TJ37 & PEG-TJ27

The Sony CLIÉ PEG-TJ37 and PEG-TJ27 were released in early 2004, and improved upon the previous models with the addition of an integrated digital camera, complete with dedicated shutter button, and a manual sliding lens cover. The camera featured VGA (640x480, 0.31MP) resolution, and was only capable of taking still photographs. Like the previous models, the higher-end TJ37 also included

playback capabilities, but now also added

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for mobile internet access. Most other features and specifications remained the same as per the previous generation. Archived

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