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Psion's über-Gadgets

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-looking-stuff-for-your-body dept.

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. "

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  1. Fun and Games with Halo by rleyton · · Score: 5

    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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  2. Perl and Java by chrysalis · · Score: 4

    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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  3. AT LAST Slashdot recognises Psion! by MosesJones · · Score: 4


    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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  4. SlashDot DDOS by vbrtrmn · · Score: 4

    The authorities are still baffled as the SlashDot DDOS claims yet another site. Why must SlashDot continually attempt to hinder these small sites, possibly causing the owners to have to take them down, because the can't afford to pay for the bandwidth?

    If I ever get SlashDotted, I'm gonna sue :P

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  5. More concepts... by dostick · · Score: 4


    ..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.

  6. EPOC - SYMBIAN - WE ARE YOUR FUTURE! by Troed · · Score: 4
    Psion's über-gadgets. Based on the Epoc operating system. Now known as the Symbian platform. Made by .. Symbian. Symbian is owned by Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Panasonic and Psion. Other licensees are Sony, Kenwood etc.

    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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