Sony Marketing will launch the product in the market on April 7, 2001. The price has not been made public yet. The price was set lower than that of the previous model of CLIE by separately selling the module to connect with a cell phone. The characteristics of the new model are its newly added features, namely audio playback, reservation of TV program recording, and higher resolution of a liquid crystal screen.
Users can also enjoy increased music content by making use of other application software.
The maximum playback time is eleven hours when switching off the screen. The reasons why Sony was able to mount an audio playback feature were the lowered cost of decrypting LSIs and enhanced performance of batteries available in the market today. As a result PEG-N700C was able to realize the playback time that is about the same as that of the existing portable music player. Sony was confident to announce that the quality of music played by PEG-N700C is about the same as that of a walkman. Data on the selected programs will then be sent to VAIO connected with USB to run on Giga Pocket.