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My friend’s dad is selling his 1 year old VAIO because he has crossed over to the dark side [read: he went APPLE]. Kidding about the dark side, serious about the VAIO. He’s taken really good care of it.  Color: Silver 15.4 inch 1280x800 Xbrite Intel Centrino Duo 1Gb DDR II RAM Intel GMA950 250Gb HDD Windows Vista Home Premium Webcam ===================== Asking price is: 55,000.00 PhP =====================  

I'm selling my UMPC [Ultra Mobile Personal Computer] it's a SONY VAIO VGN-UX280P with Box and all the accessories. -- Specs: This is a Intel® Centrino™ based system can run upto 2.5 to 4.5hrs on a charge [YMMV] Processor: Intel® Core™ Solo Processor U1400 Ultra Low Voltage 1.2Ghz (533MHz/2Mb L2 Cache) WLAN: Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (802.11a/b/g) Chipset: Intel® 945GMS Chipset Graphics: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (128MB Video RAM) Memory: 1024Mb RAM DDR2 400Mhz HDD: 40Gb HDD Ultra ATA with SONY shock protection PAN: Bluetooth 2.0 Toshiba Stack WAN: Sony Ericsson GPRS/EDGE Modem [unlocked, I've used it with Globe and SMART] Display: 4.5inch Touch Screen 1024 x 600 resolution [with screen protector] Input: Sliding QWERTY backlit keyboard / Touch Screen with Handwritting recognition / Trackstick Security: Biometric Security [Finger print scanner] Battery: Standard Lithium-ion battery (VGP-BPS6) Cameras: Dual Motion Eye Cameras [VGA front web ca...

If you own a SONY VAIO VGN-UX280P on Vista, head on over to the eSupport Website . There are 2 Hotfixes from Microsoft. One for Windows Media and the other for the Camera. There's a BIOS update and the new SmartWi Manager for Cingular.

With a little googling, tweaking, and a lot of patience/help from Lo' [thanks again bro!] I've now been able to unlock & use the built-in Sony Ericsson GPRS/EDGE Modem on the UX280P with another SIM card. I slapped in my Globe SIM and after a few minutes I was prompted that the network has been found & that it was ready to use. I tried connecting to GPRS and sending SMS using the included Cingular Connection Manager and it worked! Hehehe! I am unsure if I can make GSM voice calls with this module & software combination. Since I'm using a non-UX280P specific SmartWi application [using a SmartWi for a Sprint enabled VAIO because it works with Vista] and with this version I can't activate WLAN and WWAN at the same time. Might do a bit more research and see if these can be rectified. I also might look into Globe's Visibility [unlimited DATA plan for PhP 2,000.00] plan for my data needs. -- SONY eSupport Website for UX280P Knowledge Articles: C422852 and C42...

Finally got Windows Mobile Device Center (aka Activesync for Vista) on the UX280P to sync with my 750v over Bluetooth. Apparently it needed a bit of registry editing to make WMDC recognize the serial port that the Toshiba Bluetooth stack installed on my VAIO VGN-UX280P. Tested on/with: SONY VAIO VGN-UX280P Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Toshiba Bluetooth Stack and Software [ver. 5.00.10 from SONY] Windows Mobile Device Center palm Treo 750v Wndows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition [AKU 2.6] 1. On your VAIO [Part 1] 1.1 Open WMDC under Mobile device settings Connection Settings make sure Bluetooth is enabled 1.2 Click Start [Windows logo] On the search bar type regedit 1.3 Navigate to the ff: key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services 1.4 look for SerialPort and modify it to COM7 1.5 Exit the Registry Editor and Reboot your PC 1.6 Open BT and make sure the VAIO is visible and can accept connections 2. On your Treo [Part 2] 2.1 Enable BT on the Treo [you may want to delete e...

Ok here's the 2nd part of my review it includes a lot of photos and a video demo of the biometric security on the VAIO. -- -- [photos follow] On Multiply

[Treo vs VAIO] Ok as I stated a few posts back I wanted a UMPC, something smaller and lighter than my current notebook. Well I gave in to the itch and got myself a SONY VAIO VGN-UX280P. It's actually a US version of the UX series of VAIO's the main difference is that it has a GPRS/EDGE modem instead of a CF card slot [it's locked to Cingular though and I haven't had it unlocked yet]. I had it loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium coz I read it was equivalent to Media Center on the XP. Anyway here are some specs: -- Intel Core Solo U1400 1.20Ghz Processor 1024 DDR2 RAM 40Gb HDD Windows Vista Home Premium 1024 x 600 Colour 4.5" Touchscreen Biometric Fingerprint Scanner 0.3 MP Motion Eye [front] 1.3 MP Motion Eye [rear] GPRS/EDGE Modem Slideout QWERTY keyboard WiFi A/B/G Bluetooth Memorystick slot 1x USB port 1x SONY port connector 1x stylus -- Extra loot: 2x track stick covers 1x kick stand 1x strap 1x cradle with 1x VGA out, 1x AV out, 3x USB port, 1x LAN, 1x Firew...