In case you missed it, I had a brief hands-on video with the Sony Mylo com2 on UltraMobileGeek.com. The mylo (Intentional lowercase portmanteau for "My Life Online") spec sheet sounds familiar.
- 800x480 touchscreen
- Sliding backlit keyboard
- Linux based core
- Widget interface with quick links to Facebook and YouTube
- WiFi, and Skype, but not a phone
Even so ... I want to put this one through the paces. I want to see what they did right and wrong on it and give my comparative experience with other devices. I am glad to see the original mylo plans in the trash and was impressed with how far they have come. In a battle between the Nokia N810 and the mylo COM2, it's a race to see if a device with an expensive development and marketing budget can battle a device with hundreds of third party apps and an SDK.
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What contest? Open is cool. Being able to load your own apps and change the way the N810 works is cool. Closed Mylo = closed Microsoft = uncool.
Much like the PSP, people will hack it, Sony will release patches, and the endless struggle will begin. *
(*Note: I hate Sony. After the rootkit debacle, and swiping $50 for 3 months time on a disabled Starwars Galaxies account, they've never getting another cent from me.)
Closed it may be, but marketable it will be. This thing will sell far more than the Nokia internet tablets simply cos' its aimed at the consumer, not linux geeks.
Its a shame but its a fact. If sony market this thing as well as the PSP, PS3, WALKMAN and others under their lineup, they have a good seller on their hands and very few of those teens would care that its a closed system.
The Nokia internet tablets trounce this mylo in sheer ability, but it mean nothing if its just sold in the realms of the linux-o-sphere and the odd adventurous geek.
Open platform = open to all and easy to use. Less x-term, more long term.
Sony will have screwed it up in a big way, and somehow the public at large will not hear about it, or simply won't care.
NOTE: I'm very biased. Like hedgecore, I don't like Sony. They've run roughshod over me as a consumer far too many times. Now anything with the Sony name (and that includes blu-ray) has to overcome my dislike first.
It's pretty, and I think it will probably offer an easier out of the box experiance for its target audiance. The things that are immediate strikes against for me are (1) no bluetooth, so no DUN via my mobile phone, and (2) it uses Sony's propriatary memory sticks, and I see no reason to buy a third memory format after SD and mini-SD.
Linux marketable? Not yet boys and girls. Sony does well because they put out good product. Nokia Internet tablet, sure if you're in the silicon valley. For everyone else...this is the real deal.
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