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[kpilgreen]

Sony Answers Your Questions - LAPUG - April 12th
Submitted by Russell Howell |
April 3, 2003 07:28 PM


Dave Seperson, Product Specialist, and Chris Gulliver, Product Manager for Sony Electronics PDA Division will be Speaking, Demonstrating and Answering your questions about Sony''s line of Palm OS PDA products. The meeting will start at: 10:30 am on Saturday April 12th in the Music Department at Border''s Books at 1360 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. For more Location information, check out the LAPUG website at http://www.naxera.com/lapug/

Due to the number of people expected to be in attendance, please submit your question IN ADVANCE (dreamlnd@pacbell.net) so that Mr. Seperson and Mr. Gulliver can answer as many questions as possible with the most current and correct answers. They cannot, unfortunately, answer questions about products that have not yet been released.

This is a great opportunity for long time PDA owners as well as those looking to Purchase their first PDA. Make sure to set aside the time to attend and participate as there may be a surprise at the end of the meeting! For those in attendance last month will tell you about one lucky attendee walking away with a Brand New Kyocera 7135 Cell Phone!

Topic Ideas for questions you might wish to ask:

Palm Desktop (Support / Updates / Incompatibilities)
Mac OS Support
Memory Stick / Memory Stick Pro / MagicGate
SD
Compact Flash
Cameras
Built on Keyboards
Virtual Graffiti
Graffiti 2
Palm OS 4.1 / 5.0
Bluetooth
Wireless Internet Connections
Acquisition of Palm Source / Palm Solutions Group
Product Lifecycle / Support
Styli
Cell Phone Convergence
Battery Life
Sony 320x320 API vs Palm 320x320 API
I am not saying I beleive any of this but thought you guys would want to know

[Puppy]

Hey, on the Sony OS 5 devices, are Palm and Sony using the same hi-res APIs now? Or are they still different?

[Token User]

Originally posted by kpilgreen
I am not saying I beleive any of this but thought you guys would want to know What is there not to believe? It is the Los Angeles Palm User Group - there are a lot of us that go.

Last month we had Kyocera to the meeting, and a 7135 was given away. We have Palm presenting to us regularly and they generaly give away some nice schwag (hi Dianne), and have had Handspring along as well.

We have even crossed to the darkside and had T-Mobile presenting the Thera and Sidekick devices.

Rusty is looking for questions in advance, so that Sony can come prepared.

There have been hints that depending on how many show up, there will be a very cool give away for someone :)

[Eric S]

Originally posted by Puppy
Hey, on the Sony OS 5 devices, are Palm and Sony using the same hi-res APIs now? Or are they still different?

The PalmOS5 Clies support both APIs now. Unfortunately, they don't support the CD-quality Streaming Sound API that is part of PalmOS5.

[Puppy]

Streaming Sound as in like off the internet? Or just a sound API for the locally stored stuff? Man, I hope the Palm OS dosen't get any more fragmented.

I guess technically the Sony devices are set for about anything, if they can do both hi-res APIs.

[Eric S]

Locally played sounds, so yes, this is a bad form of fragmentation, especially since Sony won't release the documentation to their equiv. API (I've heard rumor that they'll release it under NDA, but given the fact that none of the non-Sony audio players work on the NX, I doubt that this is true).

The only way I see this that this could be beneficial to the consumers is that they're planning on doing away with their custom API and switch to the standard API, and if they don't document the custom API, they have no need to continue supporting it. However, I can't say that this is the reason, as there are reasons for Sony themselves to like it this way.

[n2ifp]

Ha, Sony listen, what a crock :D!

[yawn]

Now who is being negative and a naysayer???