Sony announced their new CLIE PEG-N700C in Japan today (if you read Japanese, go to the site). It is said to have a 320x320 pixel color reflective screen (WOW!), runs on the Dragonball VZ at 33MHz, has 8MB RAM and 8MB Flash (likely necessary to support the Japanese Palm OS), an audio player, video player, a TV recorder and player, and weighs 160 grams. Measurements are 71 x 119 x 17mm, roughly the same size as the PEG 300 sold in the USA. A mobile phone adapter is said to be available. Though this is released in Japan, it will "vary slightly" from the model that will be released in the US, according to my sources at Sony. Our current source for the rest of this news is the excellent Brighthand website. Thanks to Edward Green for posting the specs. It is not known when such a unit will be released in the US. -Shawn Barnett

Agenda Computing has announced plans to begin shipping their Pure Linux Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) the "VR3" in the United States on April 3.

Revolve Design offers a vehicle mounting kit called the "RoadWriter" (US$200) for Palm OS devices that also supports an external keyboard.

There is a new Equinox Solutions email service that will convert a desktop Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet file into a Cutting Edge's Quicksheet format that can be download to a Palm OS device.

-Steve Holden (sholden@pencomputing.com)