The battery is from a manufacture date of possibly year or 2 ago since Sony shut down production many moons ago. There is no service/repair plan so that's a lot of bucks for something ....
I'd pass.
Bob
I was looking around for a good handheld, and the most common flaw with most handhelds I found was either bad customer support, low battery time/life (and the lack of replacable batteries), lack of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (in Palms), size, lack of features, or a bad software bundle.
Then I found the Sony UX50, which seems to have all of the above. Also, the price seems to have dropped to a reasonable amount. Is it a good idea for a handheld?
My specific questions are:
-Is the customer support any good?
-Is any of the software/hardware badly outdated?
-Is it worth $400 US?

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