The Clié (Communication, Link, Information and Entertainment) is, as you would expect from Sony, a sleek and stylish device with lots of added features such as a higher resolution screen, MP3 player, multimedia features and a Magic Gate Memory Stick slot. It also has a very impressive battery life.

While other Palm-based devices make do with a screen resolution of 160 x 160, Sony has doubled this to 320 x 320 for the Clié and the device includes a High Resolution Assist application to enable any of your current programs to run at the higher-resolution mode. Because of this, everything - text, pictures and videos - look a lot sharper with the Clié. The front-lit screen offers 16-bit colour and is readable in daylight.

The Clié uses the same 33MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor as most of today's Palm-based devices, backed by 8MB of RAM, and it comes with an 8MB Memory Stick. One of the biggest complaints of previous Clié's was way they dealt with running programs from the memory stick. This has been dealt with, and now the Clié automatically copies the application into RAM and deletes the file when you close it.

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Included are two Memory Stick-based applications. These are Memory Stick Backup, which allows you to back up the RAM with a single tap, and the Memory Stick Import/Export, which turns the Clié into a plug-and-play USB Memory Stick reader/writer, with the Clié showing up on your desktop as an external storage drive.

There's also a bundled remote control, so you can leave your Clié in your pocket and control the AudioPlayer software for the MP3 player.

Sony's Clié has the most features currently available on any Palm device and pushes at the boundary between Palm and the Pocket 2002 devices. However, most of these features are memory hungry, and memory is something that the Clié is a little short of.