1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Awesome--[not too expensive], 2003-02-15
Best[not too expensive] hand held on the market. If you are a college student, or just not looking to spend the [money]on the model that can do your taxes, get this one.
 Good basic PDA, 2003-02-14
No complaints, works as promised (a true Sony!). Only weakness is the screen - it's not as clear as it could be in indoor/outdoor light.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Great product, much better than the Palm M100, 2003-02-12
I bought one of these for my wife and I must say that this is a well thought out product with great features. Bad things first: I don't like the fact that the screen is way too dim, that is why I'm giving it only 4 stars. On the plus side I like the fact that is about twice as fast (or more) than the PALM M100 that I have. This can be noticed in every operation and particularly in games like bejeweled. The machines works perfectly with Macintosh and OSX 10.1.3 out of the box with the provided USB cable. The USB connection is great, I can't even measure how fast this baby synchronizes, it's that fast. The only thing lacking if you're using an Apple Macintosh is the picture and movies options present in the PC software. This options work in the Mac with the software "the missing sync" from Mark/Space (http://www......html) which can be obtained for .... The screen has 4 times more pixels than the Palm and it shows: everything is sharper and the Apps made for the clie are beautiful. The included apps are great: documents to go allows you to create and edit excel and word documents, which is great. The Clie design is great, we like it a lot, is a solid device with nice looking lines. This is a great entry level product. If you can afford the more expensive ones go ahead and buy it, it is worth it if it has a brighter screen and an AC adaptor.
6 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 the Bimbo PDA!, 2003-01-30
I went from a Handspring Visor Platinum to this Clie and now almost regret it. PROs: screen resolution is twice as sharp and gorgeous, nice sleek metallic casing, Documents To Go is already included allowing you to view and edit Word & Excel files CONs: screen is hard to read except under bright light so you have to use the backlight more often which burns batteries much faster; the Handspring had much more practical features for business use such as Datebook Plus and Expense Tracker; documentation is incredibly useless so you have to dig around the online website which is only a little less useless so you have to use the 1-800 help number which is OK if you can stand the hold times. Also, the Clie is loaded with a lot of memory-hogging software that you CANNOT remove---fluffy flaky junk like photo viewers, movie viewers, memory stick drivers, camera and MP3 apps. (why anybody would WANT to view photos and movies on a MONOCHROME screen escapes me) I can understand that maybe SOME users will actually use these but why can't those of us who don't want to use them remove it??? ... I guess that's wy they call this an "Entertainment Organizer"---probably fine for video games and other fluff but not really geared for the business user. Should be called "The Bimbo PDA"---looks great but not much else!
4 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 Instant Love - relationship gone into the Trash, 2003-01-28
SONY Incompatible with Proven PALM software!!!
I picked up the Sony Clie SL10 after looking at it for only a few minutes. I thought the hi-res screen was great and it was nice and pocket-able and inexpensive - although it did hurt my eyes once I really started to use it.SOFTWARE GLITCH - I lose all my data every couple of days due to "MemoryMgr.c:line4415" error. Sony claims this is 3rd party software problems and "Sony takes no responsibility for 3rd party software". Sounds reasonable enough except.....
This software, "timeLogger" from http://www.....com is my most important application and has been tested extensively for three years on every other Palm device including Handspring, and every PALM unit including the finicky Tungsten with Palm OS5 with not a problem. Sony won't help me.
A google search for MemoryMgr.c shows MANY links to SONY clie products, including some messages on the cliesource site (december 12, 2002 is one message). However, when you get to the Cliesource bulleting board, there is no trace of such a message, suggesting a cover-up as the message was deleted in only 6 weeks.
BEWARE of sony software incompatibility.
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