Akihabara News released today an HD preview video of the Vaio UX50.

I’m sure a lot will be commenting on the seemingly slow boot-up of the UX50. I would have appreciated it if the reviewer did the initial setup of Windows XP before hand and started filming the video after the fact since we will get […]

Sony must have been impressed with the Apple PoweBooks and thus added the light sensitive keyboard backlighting feature on the Vaio UX. Type U indicates that Sony did a good
job on the blue keyboard backlighting as it gradually turns on when you slide up the screen, and gradually fades out when you slide the screen down. It does the […]

Digital World Tokyo reviews the Vaio UX and concludes:

…if you have a need for a very-capable handheld PC, then you’ll probably love the UX50 in a heartbeat; if not, then you’ll simply marvel at the technology it packs in and move on. The choice is yours.

I would like to mention what they didn’t like about the UX: […]

Type U shows off how the Vaio UX can be used as a Voice over IP (VoIP)  phone. Sony properly designed the Vaio UX with a small speaker at the upper left and a small microphone at the lower
right, perfectly aligning them to the left or right ear and mouth respectively.

It is also interesting that […]

I’ve talked about the battery options last time. This time, thanks to Type U, we can have a glimpse of the two other accessories that the Vaio UX also come with: the carrying stand and the adapter holder.

The carrying stand is a small device that attaches to the back of the Vaio UX to make it stand on […]

SonyStyle Japan has posted eight freely downloadable Vaio UX “Find You Own Style” wallpapers, with Sony, marketing the different uses of the Vaio UX: Browsing, Blogging, Business, Mapping, Music and Movie,
Communication, and Entertainment (which I’m coining the term B3M3CE).

This reminds me of the Sony “CLIE” Palm OS PDA which stood for Communication, Link, Information, and […]

SonyStyle Japan shows the two battery options for the Vaio UX: the 2600 mAh standard VGP-BPS6 for 19,800 yen (about $176) and the 5200 mAh extended VGP-BPL6 for 34,800 yen (about $309). If you need a backup battery, since the Vaio UX already comes with a VGP-BPS6 out of the box, it might be wise […]

The Japanese blog Type U shows a pic of the Vaio UX with a Windows sticker saying that it is “Windows Vista Capable.” It’ll be interesting how the Vaio UX would perform under Vista, having only 512MB of RAM.

A bigger pic is available after the jump.

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With all the hype about the UMPC, Sony announces today its own version of the UMPC — the Vaio UX Micro PC, a handheld PC weighing just more than a pound with a 4.5″ SVGA screen, wireless connectivity (802.11 a/b/g, Bluetooth, and WWAN to connect to Cingular’s EDGE), two cameras for taking pictures and for […]