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Yes, the CF slot on the Sony Clié can hold a CompactFlash Storage card, but its use was severely limited... until now.

The Athena CF Enabler enables your Sony Clié to use the CompactFlash slot for standard CompactFlash memory.

With the Athena CF Enabler product, you can use your Clié and a CompactFlash card to:

Be more mobile: Store large amounts of data on a CompactFlash card.
Install and run large programs on a CompactFlash card, saving precious internal RAM.
Record lectures, meetings, and phone calls in high-quality mode without worrying about storage.
Store up to 2000 songs on One card!
Use your Memory Stick slot for a Bluetooth card.
Use an adapter to read Secure Digital, MultiMedia, and SmartMedia cards.
Use your Clié to view pictures from your digital camera, instantly.
Save Money: Compare a $220 1-GB CompactFlash card to a $560 1-GB Memory Stick. Buy the CompactFlash card and the Athena CF Enabler, and still have enough money left to buy an NX60 for a friend!

Athena CF Enabler

Runs on an enormously wide range of CF storage cards

The Athena CF Enabler can be used with virtually any CF storage card. This means you can get the benefits of inexpensive, widely available CompactFlash storage units, either "Type I" and "Type II", both now and later as new, larger capacities are offered. In the fast-moving CF storage card market, we haven't been able to test every product, but so far all the CF storage cards we've seen work with the Athena CF Enabler (the only exception being harddisk-based products like IBM's Microdrive).

Use Palm software from Secure Digital cards !

Software for Palm OS on locked Secure Digital cards was once denied Clié users, but no more!

Versatile User-selectable Switches

The Athena CF Enabler's Console program lets you Automount cards (making the functioning of the CF cards as transparent as Memory Sticks). The Console also allows you (through the Replace MS function) to make the CompactFlash slot behave as though it were the MS (Memory Stick) slot on the Clié, thereby allowing access to selected built-in Clié applications such as Audio Player and Movie Player.

Highlights of the Version of Athena CF Enabler:

Now supports Clié Models NX73 and NX80 Sony Clié model PEGNX73V
Sony Clié model PEGNX80V The new Athena CF Enabler brings the same great CF support and enabling features to the popular Sony Clié models NX73V and NX80V. The product can run, unchanged, on the widely-popular 60, 70, and 90 models, and on the recently introduced 73/80 models. Version of the Athena CF Enabler coexists peacefully with the built-in Sony drivers, handling CF storage cards when they are used―and letting the Sony driver take over when non-storage devices are inserted in the CF slot.

Use both the CF card and the MS simultaneously
The Second MS mode allows you to use applications such as Audio Player and Movie Player without the need to enter Replace MS mode. Thus, the Memory Stick remains fully usable, and no soft reset is required to enter or exit from the mode.

Mode switching easier than ever
Users don't need to manually mount and unmount cards to switch into and out of Replace MS and Second MS modes. Where appropriate, the product will automatically unmount and remount the CF card for you.

Movie Player support
You can now run the Clié Movie Player without the need for a Memory Stick (MS). In Second MS mode, Movie Player will recognize the CF as an MS and will not require that you have an MS inserted to operate. Also while in Movie Player, you can remove the main card and it will refresh the display to show the movies on the remaining card. Reinserting the original card causes Movie Player to show the files on that card again.

Easier to Use, More Robust Capabilities
With a streamlined user interface, Version of the CF Enabler is easier to install and run than ever before. Greater error-checking and improved logic translates to a more reliable, robust product.

Wide Application Support

Many applications already support the Athena CF Enabler and others are well on their way to supporting it. Athena America will continuously be adding features to our Enabler technology.

Extensive Hardware Support Sony Clié with open CF slot

Version of the Athena CF Enabler runs on a wider range of Sony Clié models than ever before, including the NX60, NX70V, the NZ90―and now, for the first time, the new NX73V and NX80V.

Lifetime Upgrade Policy

This is the program you'll only have to buy once. All purchasers of the Athena CF Enabler are entitled to free lifetime upgrades of the product.

Can you afford this product?

Yes you can! The Athena CF Enabler product, including both Console and Driver, is only $27.00 (USD). Given what this product can help you do with a CF storage card on the Sony Clié, the real question is: Can you NOT afford to have this product?

The Athena CF Enabler

Yes, the CF slot on the Sony Clié can hold a CompactFlash Storage card, but its use was severely limited... until now.

The Athena CF Enabler enables your Sony Clié to use the CompactFlash slot for standard CompactFlash memory.

With the Athena CF Enabler product, you can use your Clié and a CompactFlash card to: