Windows Phone Thoughts: Gizmodo Reviews Sony's U50

"It catches eyes, that's for sure. I had forgotten to load the Sony VAIO U50 with any software before our flight home to Kansas City for the weekend, but since an unexpected storm front was blowing in from the north, we had almost two hours to kill while our plane sat, stranded on the tarmac of LaGuardia. Even scrolling through empty file systems was better than the airline magazine. 'Excuse me,' said the man sitting next to me, and I turned too fast to respond, because I knew he had been staring. 'What exactly is that thing, and can you play Spider Solitaire on it?'



Joel over at Gizmodo gives the U50 a pretty thorough review, and comes up with some interesting conclusions. He thinks that it fares poorly for a laptop replacement as it's hard to use the foldable keyboard, etc. However, for him it appears to be "something up to keep next to the bed, with the convenience of a PDA, but none of the limitations", which I find interesting. If you're looking for a bedside wireless surfing device, I'd agree. But if you're looking for a pocketable contact database, I'd still rate a Pocket PC as a more useful unit than this. (Nevertheless, I still wouldn't mind if someone gave me one of these. ;))