Good, but with a few reservations

I've got this to go with my T625C and 128Mb memory stick. It's pretty good: the sound quality is really excellent, the transfer process from your PC is reasonable, and it'll keep going for far, far longer than the advertised 4 hours on a fully charged battery if you keep the backlight on your display switched off.

There are a few issues worth bearing in mind, however:

- It'll only play MP3s with a bitrate of 128kbps or less. This isn't a disaster as 128 is the most common bitrate, but it can be an annoyance if you have to re-encode lots of existing MP3s with higher bitrates.

- It is only compatible with ID3v1 tags, which is ridiculous in 2002. Worse, most tracks with ID3v2 tags (such as mp3s encoded by MusicMatch, among others) won't play at all. The bundled mp3 encoder will encode tracks with ID3v1 tags, but only at 96kbps, which is sub-CD quality. You can get round this quite easily with a nifty shareware program called"Mp3/Tag Studio 3.0" that'll remove all the ID3v2 tags from your mp3s and then delete the offending 'blank data' so the mp3 player will play them, but again it's an inconvenience.

- Unlike most PDA mp3 players you can't have it working in the background, so you can't listen to mp3s while you browse avantgo, for example.

In short, if you've got a T series Clie this is extremely good value for eighty quid - a bit of tweaking and you'll get first rate music for less than the price of even the cheapest stand-alone player. If you're looking to get a pda from scratch, however, there are better pda+mp3 solutions available, without these (admittedly fairly minor) shortcomings, for the price of this and a Clie combined.

Best accessory to have around for heavy NZ90 users!

The PEGA-BP500 is a must for heavy users as the NZ90 retail package only contains one unit of it, and this sure is not enough for heavy office and business users.

Slim and compact enough to fit into any pockets, the BP500 poses a necessity among all the range of accessories for the NZ90.

Pros:
1. Doesn't have any memory effect.
2. Smart Info Lithium will show the duration of battery charge
and hours it will be before it depletes. This is very
helpful for guiding owners for usage budgeting and charging
intervals.
3. Small enough to fit into any case/pocket.
4. No hassle to buy a bigger battery extender like most other
Clie models. Just take out the worn out one and replace it
with a freshly charged battery. A complete wireless on the
move device!
5. Comes with manufacturer warranty and recycleable.

Cons:
1. Nearly non, therefore I'd comment that this battery is a bit
pricey on the tag. But worth it the purchase.

I'm in Love with this PDA

I've only had the Clie 625 for a few days and already I'm in love!

It offers the perfect size and weight for slipping into your pocket combined with a great screen with very good colour rendition. Some very useful buttons and dials allow you to navigate quickly around a range of easy to use, yet powerful applications. In a PDA beauty contest the Clie wins on both beauty and brains.

very pleased with TJ27, not with suggested accessories

When i bought my TJ27 it was very good, At the same time below the item, it gave some more items to buy, well i wanted a desktop cradle to go with it, so i bought the one suggested on the page which when i recieved it was the wrong one (very good eh) after the length of time it took to come. As you can imagine i am still looking for a cradle, can i find one, NO.
So it looks like the pda is very good, but accessories not good.
So be careful.

CLIÉ™ Carrying Case

Black, leather custom-fit carrying case for the UX series. Extra pockets for Memory Stick® media , business cards or notes are included for convenience.

Custom-fit, carrying case for PEG-UX series.
Extra pockets for Memory Stick® media and business cards cluded.
Made with high quality leather.