Move over T-Mobile Sidekick 3…here comes the Sony Mylo, which looks like a sleeker version of the Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable). The Mylo aka “My life online”, released last September, is geared towards the youth market, and competes with T-Mobile’s “Hiptop” or “Sidekick”, and Nokia’s 770. The Mylo allows you to get connected online with friends by using the pre-loaded Instant Messaging and VoIP services: Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, and Skype. You can surf the Net with the Opera Browser via its built in Wifi, and also play your music and videos with its MP3 and MP4 Video features with almost 1 gig of storage space. But it lacks the 1.3 MP camera that the latest Sidekick 3 has, and doesn’t operate with a cell phone plan. So the only way you can make calls is through VoIP using the pre-loaded Skype…yet, that’s only when you can find a wifi hotspot. Well, at least the calls will be free! But then will all this be worth its hefty US$350 price tag? Ahh, if only I lived in Frederickton, New Brunswick with free city-wide wifi!
Still, I think the Mylo is one of the coolest looking devices that I’ve seen from Sony in a while, and hoping that its price will drop soon, because unless you’re living in a predominantly wified city, it will just end up being an overpriced MP3/Video player since you won’t be able to use its main communication features wherever you go.
October 4, 2007 at 6:04 pm |
do you have to be close to wifi to be abls to use the network
October 4, 2007 at 9:34 pm |
i got a mylo for sale just e-mail me jrplanetfitness@hotmail.com price $250.00
May 27, 2008 at 5:12 am |
Excellent post I was unaware about the wifi part… Thanqs:)