Psion Is Back :-), With Windows :-(

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 4, 2003 @10:21AM from the perhaps-familiar-will-run dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Forbes has an article about the come back of Psion in the high end PDA market. Psion's OS, Symbian, that used to power their PDA (as the Revo for example, or the Series 3, or the Series 5), has been mostly used in cell phones lately, like the Nokia 3650. According to Forbes's article, the new Psion laptop/PDA, the Netbook Pro, will not be powered by Symbian OS, but by Microsoft CE.Net." prostoalex points out a ZDNet review of the device, "which is smaller than your usual notebook PC, but larger than a regular PDA. The product Web site contains specifications in PDF format. It's an Intel Xscale PXA255 400MHz, 128MB SDRAM and 32MB Flash, SVGA (800x600) device supporting CompactFlash and Secure Digital (usual for PDAs) as well as PCMCIA (usual for laptops)," and notes that despite the OS, "the specs list the presence of JEM-CE Java Virtual Machine."

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Only a matter of time . . . by psilosopher256 · 2003-10-04 10:39 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm looking forward to the day that the NYT uses emoticons in headlines. Thanks, /., for showing me how classy and trust-inspiring that sort of thing can be!

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---Psilosopher
Boring and irrelevant by cabalamat2 · 2003-10-04 14:50 · Score: 0, Troll

I won't be using one. Psion, once an innovative company, is now an irrelevant M$ cloner, doomed to continually decreasing margins, while any profits from their products increasingly go Bill Gates' way.
You'd have thought they would have learned from the mobile phone industry and realise why that industry is loathe to touch MS witrh a barge pole.