Controls are laid out nicely; you won't hit them by accident but can find them easily. On the face of the unit is a circular navigation button (left, right, up, and down with "Select" in the center) in addition to "Home," "Info," "Option" and "Back" buttons. The power and wireless buttons are hidden as "trim" along the edges of the unit.

There are USB and headset ports, volume controls, a hold button and forward/reverse/play/pause buttons scattered around the back of the unit. There is a slot for a Memory Stick Pro DUO card to increase storage space beyond the 1GB of onboard memory.

IM and voice

As an instant messaging device, the mylo has its drawbacks. Most notably, while there is support for Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger, there is no support for the widely used AOL Instant Messaging and MSN Messenger services.

Google Talk worked well, but there were problems text-chatting with Yahoo Messenger. For instance, while chatting over Yahoo with a friend on a PC, all incoming messages were bracketed with font tags because my friend sent colored text. This wasn't a show-stopper, but it was annoying.