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Psion Series 5mx released

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-technology dept.

Pelle Braendgaard writes "The long awaited Psion Series 5mx is released on Tuesday. 5alive jumped the gun a bit and have a full detailed review up. I'm drooling already. Full JDK1.1 support, better screen, more ram, faster ARM CPU, etc.

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  1. Java-enabled palmtops by The+Dodger · · Score: 2

    See the BBC's article `Psion now a Java machine' and ZDNN's coverage of Sun's announcement that Java will be coming to the Palm soon. Psion, as part of Symbian, are going head-to-head with Microsoft, with EPOC now WinCE's main competitor.

    The Dodger

  2. One thing in particular by edgy · · Score: 2

    One thing in particular that makes me like this device is the Next-like scrollbars and such. It's a really nice clean-cut design that kicks the pants out of Windows CE in my opinion.

    I don't have much of a need for these devices except to play around, especially since I'm still a student. Somehow the stigma of being caught dead playing with a device as bulky as this and typing stuff in it is too much for me. Even the palm pilot is too much, although it would be neat to be able to put assignments into that and/or schedule my days a little bit better since I tend to get lazy.

    All of these things cost quite a bit for a student, are they worth it? I've only gotten to use a palm pilot for a small period of time. Are there any students out there using palm-size devices with any luck?

    Ben

  3. Linux on Psions by edgy · · Score: 2


    It seems like the company that makes Psions is actually providing hardware information and helping to port Linux to these beasts.

    Linux already runs on these machines.

    Take a look here. They have screenshots of the machines running Linux, too.

    Very very cool!