Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
The Psion "Organiser II", circa 1985, was my first "eBook Reader". The clamshell Psion 3a, which I think is what you're talking about, Wood, was a brilliant device - a clamshell machine with a keyboard that "popped out" when you opened the case, and a decent multitasking operating system. The design was so "iconic" and so good that I've often wondered why nobody's copied it since - I'd love to have a Windows Mobile device with that form factor.
|
Windows Mobile? <sigh>
Quote:
|
Psion at one time, especially in the UK, were a household name and completely dominated the British PDA industry. Sadly they are no longer involved with PDAs, although the "Symbian" operating system is used by many mobile phones.
|
By the vast majority of mobile phones. Symbian is owned by a consortium of phone manufacturers including Ericsson (15.6%), Nokia (47.9%), Panasonic (10.5%), Samsung (4.5%), Siemens (8.4%) and Sony Ericsson (13.1%), and is licensed by Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu Limited, Panasonic, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.
Symbain based phones account for about 3/4 of the total mobile phone shipments world wide.
I've wondered why no one save Psion ever made a handheld based on Symbian that [i]wasn't[i] a phone.
______
Dennis