Sony CLIÉ PEG-NZ90

Like its predecessors, this handheld had a vertical clamshell swivel-screen form factor, and was powered by a 200mhz Intel XScale CPU, running the Palm OS (version 5).

The device was criticised for only featuring 16MB of storage, which was seen as poor value for the high retail price.

In contrast to the NZ90/E and NZ90/U export models, the Japanese NZ90 featured a contactless FeliCa card reader.

This enabled users to check the balance and usage history on an Edy (prepaid-money) card or a Japan Rail Pass (prepaid travel) card such as Suica.

This failure mode affected many other CCD-based products at the time, including the Clie NX80V PDA, as well as a number of Sony digital camera models.