How Sony Could Improve the UX Line
Category UX280P
Let me first start by saying that I love my UX280...it has radically improved my mobile work lifestyle, but like nearly everything else in the world, there is room for improvement.
Here is my list:
That's enough for now...oh yeah, one more, decrease the UX's power consumption and increase the battery's performance (without making them IEDs)
Let me first start by saying that I love my UX280...it has radically improved my mobile work lifestyle, but like nearly everything else in the world, there is room for improvement.
Here is my list:
- Provide two models - one with an EVDO radio, another with an EDGE/HSDPA radio; or make the radio a plug in even if they are proprietary/pricey.
- Drop the WWAN vendor relationships, even if it means charging a higher price point...your customers want flexibility and easy of use, not a lock into a service provider's contract
- Upgrade the rear camera to 3.1 megapixels
- Recess the keyboard frame slightly and provide a more tactile/taller key (-0.5mm on the frame and + 0.5mm on the keys would make all the difference)
- Figure out how to make the batteries less expensive, especially the long-life battery
- 80GB hard drive minimum, and send recovery DVDs in the box, don't steal the drive space for a recovery partition
- Provide a more powerful amplifier for the sound board (this is a general compliant about most notebooks)
- Team with ThinkOutside to come up with a decent BlueTooth keyboard that matches the functionality of a real PC keyboard...(and stop selling the 'cellphone' BT keyboard that you are currently co-marketing.)
- Drop the MemoryStick in favor of SecureDigital (I know, this will never happen!)
- Ship Vista or XP Tablet installed (I think that since Vista includes the tablet functionality and the price is already too expensive Sony made an okay decision to not ship XP Tablet installed)
- Make it possible to dock while having the stand-alone stand installed
- Improve the dock's wired ethernet to support 1GBe
- Put a SEPARATE video controller in the dock so that you can have 1200x1024 on a monitor and 1024x600 on the touchscreen (right now the dock uses a 'passthrough' for video which either makes the external monitor perspective screwy or you get an unusable 'virtual' screen on the UX.
That's enough for now...oh yeah, one more, decrease the UX's power consumption and increase the battery's performance (without making them IEDs)
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Posted by JOE at 07:08:18 PM on 12/22/2006 | - Website - |
Regarding T-Mobile I was told their SIMs have to do something special (not DHCP) to get an IP address, so maybe that happened when you took it to the store?
My big issues are the fiddly keyboard and the Cingular lock-in. Was it easy to persuade them to unlock?
The accelerometer protection sounds good, but I'm also worried about whether the screen is robust enough to take a hard knock such as if dropped (but I'm not asking you to try it).
Posted by Ed at 08:47:32 PM on 12/23/2006 | - Website - |
It is a very usable device as it is shipped, but like I said, you can always make improvements
Posted by Andy Broyles at 10:24:50 PM on 12/23/2006 | - Website - |
I dont know if it is the device or Windows XP. but when you dock/undock the video auto-adjusts to the last used resolution FOR THAT STATE (so it will goto 1024x600 when undocked and return to 1280x1024 when docked.)
Another 'adjudtment' that I made to my preferences was to change the + - buttons under the right thumb to control volume rather then sceen zoom. I didn't like the zoom feature anyway, and I use my UX to listen to podcasts and Audible books.
Posted by Andy Broyles at 10:34:24 PM on 12/23/2006 | - Website - |