Sony has announced its upcoming wifi communicator, the mylo, will feature Google Talk.
The mylo comes with built-in Google Talk IM support so you can see who’s online and available, manage your contacts, and hold multiple chat conversations at once. It also features quick access to Gmail.
The one thing I don’t read in there? Support for voice calls. The mylo appears to use Skype exclusively, which is better, but I hate limiting my choices.
I don’t really see the mylo succeeding. I just got a new cell phone, the T-Mobile MDA (an HTC Wizard variant, also branded as the Cingular 8125/QTEK 9100/i-mate K-JAM) and my wife got the T-Mobile SDA. Both have wifi, play music and video, and run tons of Windows Mobile applications. I paid $25 each, and another $24 adds a gig of Mini SD memory. While the processor is underpowered, it still makes the mylo’s $350 price point look like some kind of sick joke.
Plus, it looks better.
Needless to say, future phones with wifi make the idea of a mylo obsolete before it launches. Google’s just one of several IM providers on this device, and it’s nice to see them getting Google Talk in more places, but maybe putting out a Windows Mobile version could be a better idea?
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