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I had a Psion 5, an amazing device. It had the same apps as the 3, if I remember correctly. The keyboard was astoundingly good. The keys, if larger, would make
by geophile 3y ago
I had a Psion 5, an amazing device. It had the same apps as the 3, if I remember correctly. The keyboard was astoundingly good. The keys, if larger, would make an excellent normal keyboard.
What I really loved about the 5 was that it could run Java. I think it never got past JDK 1.0.2, or maybe 1.1. But it was clunky to use. I wrote a little shell for it, which provided basic functionality, including much simpler compiling and execution of java code. (http://geophile.com/jshell http://geophile.com/jshell. It should still run, except that it relies on an obsolete parser.)
- lproven 3y agoYou do not remember correctly, I'm afraid. The 5 ran a whole new OS with all new apps. No backwards compatibility whatsoever.
- geophile 3y agoSure, but it was the same categories, Calendar, for example.
- lproven 3y agoUm. Well, yes, broadly, true, but then they are largely similar across most PDA type devices. Address book or more general database, calendar/agenda/scheduler, notepad or jotter, maybe a file manager, then often some kind of minimal office-productivity tools or viewers...