Psion selling Symbian stake to Nokia

In article <memo.20040211093206.2572D@slitchfield.ukonline.co.uk>,
[email]usenet@ukonline.co.uk[/email] (Steve Litchfield) writes:[color=blue]
>Not now that there are freeware keyboard drivers for both Series 60 and
>UIQ. So, for example, my P800 has totally taken over from my Psion. It
>does far more in most areas than the Psion (now that Quickoffice is out),
>is far smaller, much more readable. And if I want to enter more than 20 or
>30 characters of text, I just enable the keyboard driver and use my Palm
>Wireless Keyboard, with its desktop-size keys. Most articles added to
>3-Lib in the last few months were drafted out in this way.[/color]

Yes, note that I was waiting for a Bluetooth keyboard for the P800/P900 to
be announced to replace my psion with a P900 + ext keyboard.

So far, the P900 is a really nice replacement for the psion (had it for 3
weeks). The UI is a bit limited (only one isntance of an app in memory,
apps revert to defaut state when you launch another, not able to create
subdirectories anywhere), but some 3rd-party
apps seem to provide much more "computerish" apps than the intended
"phone" style apps. The autonomy is great for a color screen, and while I
wait for the bluetooth keyboard to be available, I use an external
infrared nice keyboard... My psion 5mx !!! (I type notes in long meetings
in my psion that I can then beam to my P900).

--
Colas Nahaboo, ILOG R&D Sophia Antipolis, [url]http://colas.nahaboo.net[/url]

Guy Inchbald <guy@steelpillow.not.this.bit.com> wrote in message news:<p2XXUEBNK3KAFwcm@queenhill.demon.co.uk>...[color=blue]
>
> Maybe it's no coincidence that Psion and Phoenix start with the same letter.
> Checkout Guy Kewney's analysis at:
>
> [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/35504.html[/url]
>
> Briefly, he says that Symbian had leant just too much towards phones, which
> are not Psion's core business.[/color]


If I were JF Mezei I would proclaim myself vindicated, but since I'm
Erik Sandblom I'm wondering how wireless support can be too good.
What's stopping them from putting out a Netbook or Revo with Symbian 7
in it? If the software relating to wireless takes up too much ROM
space, which I doubt, why not just leave it out?

As has been detailed on the Netbook forum at PDA Street,
[url]http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=126[/url]
there are already at least two user interfaces that could be used, one
is EIKON as used on Psion devices, another is some Symbian thing with
a lolipop look.

Symbian is, just as originally intended, a flexible off-the-shelf
system which can be customised to suit the vendor, and retains the
reliability and power efficiency of the original Psion models.

So why switch?

Erik Sandblom

Erik Sandblom wrote:[color=blue]
> Guy Inchbald <guy@steelpillow.not.this.bit.com> wrote in message
> news:<p2XXUEBNK3KAFwcm@queenhill.demon.co.uk>...[color=green]
>>
>> Maybe it's no coincidence that Psion and Phoenix start with the same
>> letter. Checkout Guy Kewney's analysis at:
>>
>> [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/35504.html[/url]
>>
>> Briefly, he says that Symbian had leant just too much towards
>> phones, which are not Psion's core business.[/color]
>
>
> If I were JF Mezei I would proclaim myself vindicated, but since I'm
> Erik Sandblom I'm wondering how wireless support can be too good.
> What's stopping them from putting out a Netbook or Revo with Symbian 7
> in it? If the software relating to wireless takes up too much ROM
> space, which I doubt, why not just leave it out?
>
> As has been detailed on the Netbook forum at PDA Street,
> [url]http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=126[/url]
> there are already at least two user interfaces that could be used, one
> is EIKON as used on Psion devices, another is some Symbian thing with
> a lolipop look.
>
> Symbian is, just as originally intended, a flexible off-the-shelf
> system which can be customised to suit the vendor, and retains the
> reliability and power efficiency of the original Psion models.
>
> So why switch?
>
> Erik Sandblom[/color]

Flavour of the month !


Dweeb.

Steve Hodgson wrote:
=> Anyone interested in this subject should head over to The Register[color=blue]
> ([url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/35444.html[/url]) and check what reads
> like an obituary for the Psion we all knew.[/color]

The other links at the bottom of that article also paint an "interesting"
picture. Seems like Symbian is going through a difficult puberty.

With Nokia owning more than 50% of Symbian, my fear is that Nokia will take
EPOC32 for itself and leave other manufacturers in the dust. This would open a
door for Microsoft to attempt one more entry into handset market.

In the end, PSION will be a footnote only is very specialised history books.
Most IT history books won't even mention it.