Psion Netbook
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The Psion NetBook is a notebook computer from Psion and similar in design to the Psion 7. It has a clamshell design and is sub-notebook sized. It has a VGA-resolution touch-sensitive colour screen, 32MB RAM, 190 MHz SA-1100 StrongARM processor and a QWERTY keyboard. The RAM is upgradeable through the addition of an extra 32MB chip. The NetBook is powered by a removable Lithium Ion rechargeable battery, giving a battery life of between eight and ten hours.
The machine runs the EPOC operating system (a Symbian OS). Unlike the Psion Series 7, the netBook operating system is contained within the RAM and could be upgraded. EPOC has now been superseded by Symbian OS, however, and the netBook hardware prevents a Symbian OS 6 upgrade.
A Java run time environment, conforming to Java version 1.1.8, is available.[citation needed]
Psion Teklogix presently produces a netBook device similar to the earlier Psion model, in addition to the more modern NetBook Pro.
An open source project OpenPsion, formerly PsiLinux, aims to port Linux to the Psion Netbook and other Psion PDAs. See the OpenPsion site.
[edit] Included Software
- Agenda - a personal information management program
- Bombs - a minesweeper game
- Calc - a calculator
- Comms - a terminal emulator
- Contacts - a contacts manager
- Data - a flat-file database program
- Email - an email, SMS and fax client
- Jotter - a multipage scratchpad
- NetStatRF - a WiFi card monitor
- Program - an OPL program editor
- Record - a voice recording program, for use with the in-built microphone
- Sheet - a spreadsheet and graphing package
- Sketch - a drawing program (for use with the touch-screen interface)
- Spell - a spellchecker, thesaurus and anagram program
- Time - a world clock and alarm program
- Opera - a web browser
- Word - a word-processor
