Sony Reveals Mylo Handheld Communicator

Posted on August 11, 2006

Sony is expected to release a new handheld communicator device called Mylo this September. Mylo includes WiFi capability, text messaging, voip, an Opera web browser and 1GB of Flash memory.

Mylo is powered by Linux and Engadget and Linux Devices have more on this aspect of the new gadget. Here are some features included in Mylo.

capable of operating in any open 802.11b wireless network
2.4 inch color LCD (measured diagonally) with a slide out QWERTY keyboard
embedded with Google Talk, Skype and Yahoo! Messenge
includes JiWire's hotspot directory listing more than 20,000 WiFi networks
embedded HTML browser (Opera)
uses a lithium-ion battery that offers up to 45 hours of music playback, around seven hours of chatting and web surfing and more than three hours of continuous Skype talk time.
supports the playback of MP3, ATRAC or WMA (secure and unsecure) files

The listing price for Mylo is $350. The Guardian's blog links to a couple sites complaining about the new device. The Wi-Fi market is booming as Wireless Tech points out -- maybe that will help Sony sell this new gadget. More information about Mylo from Sony can be found on this website.

Digital Trends shared a review of the Sony Mylo. Take a look:

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