Psion Releases A Rugged, Water-Tight PDA

Posted by timothy on Monday October 1, 2001 @12:47AM from the 8-hours-of-life dept.

Moghedien writes: "This time a sturdy PDA, without a keyboard, but a big hi-res screen and it's designed for work in the field. Still runs the EPOC OS, 8 hour battery life time, probably a 200MHz StrongARM, 64MB RAM and MMC. It measures 215x85x28 mm. It has an IP rate of 67, meaning it's capable of lying under water for hours, and it can put up with a fall of 1.5 meters against concrete. According to Psion, its purpose is to fill the gap between powerful PDAs for the industry and handheld machines for the professional consumer market." There's a blurb describing this device on Psion's site -- but does anyone see pictures? Update: 10/01 13:35 GMT by T : An anonymous reader says: "Here is the page for the NetPad. It has a small picture, but it's better than nothing."

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Huh? by SilentChris · 2001-10-01 00:54 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"the number of physical machines hosted by Windows is at about half."
I don't see how the two correlate. So if a system is running Windows, it's physically more inclined to break??
Oops! by riggwelter · 2001-10-01 00:54 · Score: 1, Offtopic

the number of physical machines hosted by Windows is at about half

Copy 'n' paste disaster? :)

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Windows machines... by spike666 · 2001-10-01 01:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

its cuz they tend to commit suicide due to the extreme stress of running windows.

but with this new psion vaporware, it'll be able to withstand an attempt at drowning, or a ledge jump.