The sun is shining out in Pocketables land. I can almost see Jenn’s smile radiating from here, 7500 miles away on the other side of the planet. She’s got the Vaio P and the unboxing and testing has already started.

Unboxing photos’s here.

It looks like the usual stack of Sony apps and try-me-ware is installed so Jenn will probably have some cleaning-up to do before the first impressions come out. She has the 1.3Ghz, 64GB SSD version. I’ve used a similar set-up on the OQO 2+ so if the SSD is fast on the Sony, I know the Vista experience should be bearable for casual use. Certainly if you keep the device in standby, it should be fine for whipping it out of the handbag and checking Google forthe local nail parlour ;-)

Setting up the Sony Vaio P.

More info on the Sony Vaio P here.

Engadget still haven’t sussed-out that neither the S7 or the Vaio P are netbooks…

Also small is that keyboard, which is one of the most painful we’ve yet experienced on a netbook

Given the size, it’s actually one of the best keyboards. Up there with the Everun Note and way better than the SC3. With 8hrs battery life, CPU options up to 1.8Ghz and a Windows XP option, expect this to win in a bang-per-buck comparison with the Sony and with a rotated, flipped screen, reading websites and RSS feeds on the sofa will be one of the most relaxed experiences on any PC. Style and build quality are not, however, up in the Sony league. Engadget extracted a price from Viliv but ‘less than the Vaio P’ obviously means that the marketing department will make sure that 1.3Ghz model is $100-200 below the Vaio P price. We’ll have to wait to see how much the loaded pro version is. Short video also available in the Engadget article. Via Liliputing. More info and links for the Vaio P here, and the Viliv S7 here.

The Sony VAIO P [Portal page] was a big deal at this year’s CES. Sony teased us with visions of a computer that would fit in our pocket. While the device is certainly small, I don’t think it is a realistic pocket machine (even the flash ad on sony.jp seems to agree). My three year old Sony VAIO UX [Portal page] is more pocketable, which is why I was somewhat baffled when they released the P which isn’t even close by comparison. Here are several pictures from Engadget China poking fun at the pocketability of the VAIO P that I chortled at. I find the one with the desktop to be particularly funny. First shot is official from Sony of course.

Liliputing, one of my favorite netbook blogs, isnt going to cover the Vaio P on the site due to it’s cost. Netbooks are built on the promise of low cost and value for money. The Vaio is most definately aiming somewhere else and misses that low cost mark.

Minus points too for the pointer and the screen res from Liliputing.

Hands on with the Sony Vaio P.

I’m sure more than a few of you winced at the notion that the VAIO P would be trying to run Vista on a 1.33GHz Atom (Silverthorne) CPU. Probably not worth the increase in price, but jkOnTheRun has received word from Dynamism that the VAIO P will be available with CPUs up to 1.86GHz. The top model, configured with 2GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, will feature the 1.86GHz CPU, and cost you $1899, $400 more than the otherwise similarly configured model with a 1.33GHz CPU.

[jkOnTheRun]

Lots of info tonight about the VAIO P. Here we can see some pictures of what makes up the insides of the VAIO P. Check out a few of the shots below from PC User (thanks jkk), and a cool exploded view image on display at CES from Gizmodo. Head over to jkk or the PC User link for more pics.

Chippy already dropped the size comparison with SizeEasy, but here is a great shot from SonyStyle showing the dimensions of the device all around and giving you a quick hardware tour from a few different angles.

It might not be available immediately, but you won’t need to wait too long. Pre-ordering the VAIO P through SonyStyle.com reveals a release date of “on or about” 2/3/09. There are several SKUs to choose from on the site; for the few that I checked, the date was the same.