Sony USA has pulled the Vaio UX from SonyStyle. A recent thread in the Micro PC Talk forums discusses the fear of Sony, discontinuing the Vaio UX, only after three months since it was announced. While Sony is known for discontinuing a line of products
(e.g. Aibo, Clié, etc.) we got word directly from Sony USA […]

Somewhat Micro PC related, Sony announced today the Sony mylo, a wireless personal communication and entertainment device that sports a 320×240 screen, built-in 802.11b WiFi, digital audio player, picture viewer, a web browser, instant messaging via Yahoo! and GTalk, and VoIP using Skype. It has 1GB internal memory anda Memory Stick Duo expansion slot.
mylo […]

Akihabara News has just posted a video review of the new Vaio UX90PS, the new Micro PC with a solid-state 16GB flash drive. They compare its noticable, faster boot time with the Vaio UX50.
You can pre-order this black, special version of the Vaio UX at Dynamism for $2799. Personally, while I would like to […]

SonyStlye Australia now lists the Vaio UX17GP which is basically the UX90. It is listed at $2499 AUD.
It is interesting that it is labeled as a “Companion PC” rather than a Micro PC.
Full specs after the jump.

Full Specs:
VAIO 4.5″ COMPANION PC VGNUX17GP
Hardware

Microprocessor: Intel® Centrino® Mobile Technology, Intel® Core™ Solo Processor […]

Sony Press Release (Japanese).

「VAIO type U」 Zero Spindle Model

Loading speed increase. (17s to load XP whereas 63s on HDD)

30min extended battery life.

One-Seg Digital TV Tuner.

New All Black Version.

28g lighter.

Pricing starts 209,800円 on 3 July.
**Update**
Sony Zero Spin Flash Drive vs HD Drive.

Tender Green and Cosy orange

While the FCC shows that they have approved a Sony handheld device with model number PCG-1J1L, we believe that this is the Sony Vaio UX180P. PCG-1J1L is obviously a temporary model number since nowhere in all the
FCC documents mentioned ”Vaio” when the image found in one of the documents clearly has a Vaio brand at the back (”aio” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]