On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Chris Hanson wrote: > > 2. Sony eVilla BeIA appliance using some kind of (crappy) built-in mail > > application. > Were these ever actually shipped? I only recall hearing that they were in > development.
Not that I'm aware of. My friend Takeda-san and I were fiddling with one he had and he was a Sony Playstation developer who was able to get me a tour of the Sony building in Ginza (Tokyo) during off-hours, so he must have had some juice with Sony. I met him when I worked for a Japanese company and used to travel there a lot. However, the place where we did the fiddling was actually in Las Vegas. I was there at the same time as he was for two different conferences. He had a whole room full of toys that year. I think he wanted to show the device to me because he knew I liked BeOS. -Swift
