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Psion's über-Gadgets
OberonX writes " Psion has issued some new PDA
concepts which are quite breath-taking. My favourite is ACE
but HALO
looks quite neat too. Both of them are concepts, many situations are still to
be taken care(like battery life) but they sure look promising. "
I know this because I am a former Symbian developer. I've been keeping up with the OS since, but as I last got an inspiration and started writing for Crystal, it hit me again. The documentation sucks. The OS itself has a nice, clean architecture but could use some more standard libraries to make application porting easier (or possible).
One where nothing happens in the bottom left of the screen..
Maybe the three bits can be arranged into a wide-screen format arrangement?
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I like the projection idea, although I can't see the projection onto the palm of the hand being ideal. I get enough stares on The Tube as it is when I pull out my Palm pilot, but projecting my appointments onto my hand ("what IS he doing over there?") the roof (remember when the laser pens first came out? Oh the fun we had), or the forehead of the person opposite me ("Why's everyone staring at me"), could lead to fun and games on a packed District Line in rush hour....
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It says you can combine all 3 screens on the ACE to watch a movie...
I dont know what kind of movie you'd want to watch on a screen like this
God Fucking Damnit
I have a Psion 5 MX for a while, and what I love with Epoc is the presence of native Java and Perl interpreters. And they work very well. When I worked as a programming teacher, I checked algorithms in the train on the Psion. Really nice.
Another great thing : Opera. I've never seen IE on Windows CE devices, but Opera for Epoc renders very well.
Last great thing with Epoc : you can find a lot of freeware. More than on Palm (a lot of shareware) and much more than Pocket PC (almost no freeware at all) .
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My god, its a miracle after reams of articles pushing inferior competition and vapourware, Psion gets a pat on the back.
Psion has _always_ been ahead of the game in the PDA world. A proper 32bit RTOS, the links with the mobile companies. And of course the new Nokia Communicator (the first decent phone to be available in the US) runs the EPOC OS, developed by Psion and spun off into Symbian.
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..check out this page for a lot more very nice gadgets! It's impressive, i renmember half year ago there was couple of them by Ericsson/Nokia, today there are tens of those.
And yes, it's on sale, has been for a long while.
it's in my head
There's your smartphone and PDA future. Epoc is truly a wonderful operating system for these kind of devices, and it's wonderful to program for. Yeah, I've done it for a few years now.
Symbian Devnet - start downloading the SDKs. They are possible to run on Linux also with a little help from Wine.
it's in my head
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The Pop up full size ad page is annoying.
I remember the old Star Trek Tricorder that was sort of like a PDA with sensors, but was the size of a 5x8 book. (Book? what is this thing called a book?) What is funny, looking back, is that it was not believable that something would be highly functional, while being really thing (like a clipboard) That is more believable now.
I must say that certain form factors will tend to be used more often, just by being more traditional, such as a tablet, etc.
I like the attempt to get into more exotic form factors and display options
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do one hang our Halo on our bedpost at night? :-)
There's a typo : ACE is the correct link
Three screens sounds cool, and the authors make a reasonably good rationalization for their use, but in the absence of real photos of the 3 screen device, I think I might prefer having one larger screen with a windowing system that let me display multiple types of information, rather than 3 single small screens...it would let me see more when I needed to. For instance, a 21" monitor costs well more than 3 or 4 15" monitors, but who wouldn't prefer the one larger monitor ? I guess there would be power savings when using only one of the screens, though. I suppose figuring out the strengths/weaknesses of various approaches is the whole point of building concept devices.
8 1/2 x 11 with very good hand writing rec, and a decent interface to insert text into non-reco enabled programs. It seems like an ideal machine for a bunch of the most common computer uses I have at home. It's also got PCMCIA, USB, Firewire and VGA out, so you can dock it if you get the itch.
Unfortunately, at $1500-2500 (US), it's going to be a bit price-heavy as a PDA replacement, but I see people sinking all kinds of moolah into their PDAs. What's the actual cost of a new m-series Pilot, or iPaq once you get a keyboard and 802.11 and microdrive and... ?
Now, if someone can get Linux with decent handwriting reco running on the TabletPC hardware (TabLinuxPC?), I'm all over it.
That is all.
... but have never had the recognition they deserve.
Right now they're desperate, all their efforts have collapsed so all that there is left for them is to generate concept art.
It's sad to say but they have no money left and they're laying off staff like mad.
It's sad to see them fail because they had the best h/w, the best OS and the best s/w.
I still mourn the Newton/eMate.
The smallest integrated computer which was big enough to act as it's own development environment, and had no legacy issues in the OS. Closest thing to the Sandbender (Idoru). *sigh*
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