This Does Not Compute | A Look At Sony's Crazy 2000's PDAs! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Most personal digital assistants were fairly utilitarian. Sony had other ideas.

Sources:
"IBM licenses Palm Pilot," InfoWorld, September 22, 1997.
IBM WorkPad photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Workpad_c3.jpg
"Palm handhelds get expansion slot," InfoWorld, April 9, 2001.
"Palm Leads the Pack," Computerworld, November 22, 1999.
"Palm's Mace Is Officially 'Paranoid' About PocketPC," Computerworld, April 17, 2000.
"Sony Clie PEG-NX80V," Maximum PC, October 2003.
"Sony's Crossover PDA," PC Magazine, October 1, 2003.
"Palm Slashes Pricing to Match the Competition," Computerworld, February 10, 2003.
"Palm Fights Back," PC Magazine, October 28, 2003.

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