Following Sony New Zealand, Sony Japan today updated its dedicated Vaio website with a mysterious announcement. If you click here [JP], you can see a woman getting out a small UMPC-like object out of her hand bag.
Clicking on the flash animation takes you to another page [JP] where you can sign up for an email newsletter [JP] (provided you can read Japanese and have a Sony Shop ID).
The announcement is a little more concrete than the one that was on Sony New Zealand’s site a few days ago (they took it off) but it’s still unclear what the new mobile PC is (provided Sony is hyping the same piece of hardware in these countries).
Funny, seems like the whole world has gone crazy trying to copy Apple! Not only HP’s Voodoo, but rumors of Dell’s upcoming Adamo and now Sony - they are all doing back-flips in an effort to not only copy the MacBook Air, but also Apple’s marketing style of creating teaser ads about mysterious new products.
This also extends to other Apple products like the iTune music store, OS X’s Expose, dock,etc, and as well as the iPod, and don’t get me even started on the iPhone imitators!
Hardly, Sony has been doing ultra mobile notebook PCs waaay before the Macbook Air was introduced. In fact, it was Apple that copied Sony’s 2004 X505 with their Macbook Air.
http://gizmodo.com/archives/review-of-sonys-ultrathin-x505-laptop-008327.php
Oh yeah, if you look at the x505’s keyboard you will also see that Sony came out with the Chicklet keys way before the Macbook.
I’d swear that scrawny body belongs to Riona Hazuki. I sure hope the reveal the woman in the ad.
So this new Sony mobile device fits in a business envelope. Well, so does the iPhone. I thought nearly everyone said it was so tacky when the MacBook Air fit into a manila envelope. Why is Sony using this tactic. Nobody is going to be carrying it around in an envelope, anyway.
great news