The large and in charge Sony Clie NZ90 was a businessman’s Swiss Army Knife, in every sense.  If the UX50 we previously covered was the ultimate Palm OS PDA, then this was the device that usurped it and took over as supreme PDA.  The NZ90 was the culminating point for not only Sony’s lineup of N-series portrait tablet Clies, but also for Palm OS devices in general and PDA’s at large.

It is time to take another trip to the PDA graveyard.  This time we look at a Palm OS device that was unknown even when it was around, the HandEra 330.

Considering Palm’s recent renaissance with its new Pre smartphone, we are going to take a look into Palm’s complicated past at the Handspring Visor Edge, probably the pinnacle of the Visors as Handspring shifted its focus over to the Treo smartphones shortly thereafter.

While the Sony eMarker (sold from 1999-2001) may look like a USB flash drive, it served a much less useful purpose.  Hit the read link to find out more about this wonderful little dongle that history has left behind.

Why have companies abandoned the inline remote?  Have MP3 players gotten so small that a remote is unnecessary?

The Sony Vaio P was one of the big stories of CES 2009.  It features a form factor that is unique among notebooks, being particularly long and narrow.  The Vaio P, however, is physically very similar to a subnotebook from the early days of Sony laptops, the PictureBook.

It is the last day of our countdown, which means we are using the last day of 2008 to feature the Sony Rolly.  So what is the Rolly?  Find out after the jump.

Here is a device I wish some company would try to recreate.  In many ways, this device was the zenith for Sony Clie’s and even for Palm devices in general.  As you can tell from the picture, the device was shaped like a miniature tablet PC, with a relatively spacious thumb keyboard and a 3.25″ screen that could flip and fold over it.  Therefore, it could be used in both tablet mode and mini-laptop mode.  The UX50 had both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  The Wi-Fi alone makes it useful, even today, …