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Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the incredible-shrinking-handhelds dept.

chris writes "Citizen has unveiled a miniature PDA concept considerably smaller than existing PDAs. The 60 x 90 x 9.3mm 16-colour grayscale PDA is just a bit bigger then a credit card." A bit too large to stow in one's wallet, but it's still a slick form factor, easily hid in a pocket. It runs ITRON4 for an OS, and the battery life is rated at 30 hours.

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  1. Re:You're thinking of the REX 6000 by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    " I recall it had the serious limitation that you couldn't input data on it, but it was very tiny."

    Yes, that's true. It was more of a display device than a PDA. I have a watch made by Fossil like that. It's a big, very big watch. (Surprisingly comfy tho..) Also, it only syncs with my PocketPC and not my laptop. Still, it was handy to have around. I'm a little surprised there isn't a market for teeny little read only devices like that. My watch was great for storing stuff like business trip information.

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  2. Been in the development for years.. by miradu2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This seems simliar to ideas that were proposed by Citizen 3 years ago. See This article from Cnet 3 years ago. It details citizen's development of a credit card sized device that could plug into the Handspring Visor. (I remembered this article from my work at visorcentral 3 years ago)

    "Handspring and watch maker Citizen are tinkering with a prototype add-on for the Visor handheld that would allow people to copy information from their device onto a second, credit card-sized organizer."

    Citizen also helped co-develop the Rex.

  3. Weighs only 70g... by lipi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...plus Wi-Fi enabled and and it has ARM processor in it: perfect on-board controller for model air-planes.