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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Power by zarathustra93 · 2001-10-01 00:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

It amazes me to see PDA's that have more total computing power than all of that used to send men to the moon. What do we use it for? Well to play solitaire and mp3's of course! How long before people will be running seti@home and protein folding on these things?

My geek quotient just dropped a couple points though. I just got my blackberry las week, and I thought I was uber-cool. Now I guess I'm just a geek with a wireless PDA :-)