Sony announces ultra light mini note "VAIO type P" officially, with high resolution LCD, GPS, HD video playback function etc.

Previously at GIGAZINESony intends to release revolutionary mini note "VAIO type P"I announced today that the official announcement was held today.

In addition to a compact fanless body almost equal to an envelope, it realizes a light weight of 634 g in weight, making it a full-fledged mobile terminal equipped with GPS, camera, HD movie playback function, etc. in addition to high resolution liquid crystal It is.

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Details are as follows.
Pocket-sized small body "Pocket style PC" VAIO "type P" released | Press release | Sony

According to this release, Sony is said to release VAIO "type P" from Friday, January 16th.

VAIO "type P" is a fanless, top plate of the body, display eliminates screw holes from the bottom, and adopts magnesium alloy for the top plate. The four color variations are Peridot Green, Crystal White, Garnet Red, Onyx Black (VAIO owner maid model / customized model for corporate customers only).

The body looks like this. It is almost the same size as the long form 3 envelope.










Color is 4 colors, this is onyx black


Garnet red


Peridot green


Crystal White


OS is Windows Vista Home Basic SP1, 8 inch ultra wide liquid crystal (1600 x 768), Atom processor Z520 (1.33 GHz), 2 GB onboard memory, 60 GB HDD installed. In addition to supporting wireless WAN and Bluetooth compatible with wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b / g / n) and NTT docomo's "flat rate data plan HIGH SPEED", it also supports WEB camera "MOTION EYE", GPS, 1Seg viewing function Possible.

In addition to being able to change the OS to Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Business with owner-maid model, CPU can be changed to Atom Z 540 (1.86 GHz) or Z 530 (1.60 GHz), and HDD can be changed to 64 GB or 128 GB SSD .

In addition to being able to link with maps by adopting "PlaceEngine" which specifies the position by using radio waves of wireless LAN, HD video can also be played because it is equipped with HD video hardware decoder.

It is a driving time to worry about 4.5 hours driving with standard battery (S), about 9 hours driving with optional high capacity battery (L) is realized. The shop front price of the standard specification model is expected to be around 100,000 yen.

Considering that we support HD video playback which we could not satisfy with conventional mini-note satisfactorily, it has become a content that you have to feel "earnest" ... This is ....

Customization simulation is possible with the following links.

Type P MOBILITY SIMULATION - SonyStyle

The simulation screen looks something like this.