Your Mobile Companion Quick facts Overview With the MC218, Ericsson abandoned its earlier cooperation with HP, which had resulted in the MC12 and MC16 models, and instead partnered with British PDA manufacturer Psion. The MC218 was essentially a rebranded Psion Series 5mx, although Ericsson made a number of changes to both the exterior design and … Read more
It’s time to take your computer in hand! Quick facts Overview Buoyed by the success of the Psion Series 3a, Psion did not rest on its laurels. The Series 5 built on the same fundamental idea as its predecessors, but in almost every other respect it was an entirely new device. It introduced a new … Read more
Thinner, smaller and more stylish than the Palm III — and including a built-in Li-ion battery. Quick facts Overview Introduced in 1999 at a launch price of USD 500, the Palm V was the first in a new line of Palm PDAs to feature a sleek aluminium case. Compared to the plastic-bodied Palm III, it … Read more
Minor improvements to the models introduced at launch Quick facts Overview Introduced in March 1997 as a direct replacement for the Pilot 5000 model released just ten months earlier, the PalmPilot Professional offered a handful of incremental improvements. These included 1 MB of RAM instead of 512 KB, as well as a built-in backlight for … Read more
Want a colour screen? Be prepared to sacrifice readability in daylight Quick facts Overview Released in 2002, the Palm m515 represents one of the last models in Palm’s regular line of PDAs before the company’s focus increasingly shifted towards connectivity and convergence. Featuring a 33 MHz Motorola DragonBall processor and 16 MB of RAM, the … Read more
Thin, sleek, elegant — and a commercial success Quick facts Overview The Palm Vx represents the peak of Palm’s traditional, pre-expansion-card PDA design. Introduced in late 1999, it was an evolutionary update to the Palm V rather than a radical redesign, refining a form factor that had already proven extremely popular. Compared to its predecessor, … Read more
The Organizer That Wanted to Grow Up and Become a PDA Quick facts Overview Sharp, long recognized for its expertise in low-power electronics and LCD displays, was one of the world’s major manufacturers of calculators and so-called “data banks” or organizers throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As such, the company already possessed most of the … Read more
Personal Organizer marking the end of the PDA era Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new Designed with Business in mindThere is much to appreciate about the sophisticated design of the iPAQ 200 Series. the powerful processor, large touchscreen display, SDIO and CF expansion, and the convenience of headphone, microphone, and USB connections … Read more
Computing power in your hand Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new One way or another you can have a computer in your pocketNo we are not exaggerating. Thanks to the Psion Organiser (that’s the one on the right), you can now walk around quite comfortably with a computer in your pocket. You … Read more
The Ultimate Companion for your Palm OS Handheld Quick facts Overview At a time when a clear market leader had emerged — Palm, with its range of shirt-pocketable PalmPilots — several companies sought to enter the PDA space by doing something different rather than competing head-on. One such company was Fossil, primarily known as a … Read more