11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
10:17 a.m.
On 11/09/2007, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Liam Proven wrote:
I'd rather have a modern Psion. I'd give good money for a fast colour
one with a few gigs of storage, USB, Wifi and Bluetooth.
Why not a SymbianOS machine?
Had one (Nokia 7710), am looking at buying another (Nokia E90), but
all available today are of /vastly/ inferior design to Psion's
machines of the 1990s.
Tiny low-res screens, dreadful minuscule keyboards, bizarre stunted
GUIs designed by incompetents with most of the functionality
removed... It's a complete mess.
For the plague of disastrously bad keyboards, I blame those appalling
Blackberry devices. Pagers on steroids, they only exist because the
USA's mobile phone network is so ludicrously backwards that pagers -
dead in most of the world by 1995 or so - persisted into the 21st
century. I've had a phone in my pocket that could send and receive
written messages of a few hundred characters for 11 years now, and I
was a /very/ late adopter.
Anyone who could design a Blackberry and think it was a decent usable
interface on a pocket-sized device for entering text has, I submit,
never held a Psion 5 or 5mx. Or, if one insists on a tiny ladies'
jeans pocket sized object, a Psion Revo.
Symbian is Psion's EPOC, robbed of all backwards or sideways
compatibility, with an assortment of lousy but colourful and shiny
GUIs for near-terminal technophobes bolted on top.
The Nokia Communicators were telephone Psions designed by a committee
with the imagination of a small pebble.
The only good thing about Symbian is that it's not as bad as Windows Mobile.
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A machine called the Psion Death would not sell well,
for obvious
reasons. So, Psion skipped the entire number. Almost anyone doing
business in China does the same.
That would be a nice item to have in a
collection.