Are you sure mobile device screens are ‘getting bigger?’
Fascinating point from Steve Litchfield today on AAWP. Screen size on the recently released Huawei Ascend Mate? 6 inches. Screen size on the venerable Psion Series 5mx? 6 inches.
Category: Wi-Fi and the Psion Netbook
They could have been contenders, now Psion is a sad headline
Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.
Does Google Chome OS redefine our computing needs?
So the dust settles on the details on Chrome OS and everyone can spend the next few months debating Google’s strategy. Unlike other Bay Area companies, Google has been known to get it wrong, so just because they are doing something, it doesn’t meant that they will make a success of it. With Chrome OS they’re making the biggest play to cloud computing yet. By cloud computing they actually mean “we’ll be your hard drive that you can connect to wherever you are in the world.” Yes Google have brought us full circle back to the days of mainframes Dec52’s
Of Course Netbook Sales Are On The Rise
Is it any wonder that sales of netbooks are on the rise? The Guardian posted this at the start of the week and I’ve had the tab open in Firefox since then to write about this. The features race on the regular desktop market has been over for a while. The increases in CPU speed and memory don;t affect the average consumer any more. Storage is one area that is growing given the requirements of digital media, but really we should be teaching people to buy a new hard drive rather than a whole new desktop. There will always be
The Asus EEE and Psion’s Influence
Two little things around my Asus EEE PC show why it’s obvious that I really like this machine. The first is the solitary sticker on the case of the machine – the Moo Stickers along the battery spine don’t count. It’s the metallic badge of the Psion Series 3mx, probably the finest British PDA ever made, that sits proudly on the lid. The second is the case that I carry the EE around in. It’s an old, battered, mix of hard ABS plastic covered in felt and canvas, and held my Psion Netbook for many a year, starting in early
Anyone got a Battery for a Psion Series 7 or NetBook?
My Psion NetBook battery has given out in rather spectacular style, so if any of you have a Series 7, Psion NetBook or NetBook Pro kicking around that you’re not using anymore, or even better, a spare battery, I’d appreciate it if you could drop me a line at ewanspence at gmail dot com to see if we could work anything out as I could really do with a replacement Li-ON battery.
