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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 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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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.
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.
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There's a typo : ACE is the correct link
... 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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