Comments on: Psion and the netBook Trademark http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/ Mon, 07 May 2012 18:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Hughes http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-62 David Hughes Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:22:56 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-62 Of course my bias is showing; it's my blog and hence stuffed to the gills with my bias :) The main thrust of my post was sadness and disappointment that Psion had such a great opportunity and product but ultimately chickened out. iPhone, Google Nexus One both of these devices could have been playuing catch up to Psion if they had continued their great work. Of course my bias is showing; it’s my blog and hence stuffed to the gills with my bias :)

The main thrust of my post was sadness and disappointment that Psion had such a great opportunity and product but ultimately chickened out. iPhone, Google Nexus One both of these devices could have been playuing catch up to Psion if they had continued their great work.

]]> By: Bob17 http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-61 Bob17 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:14:58 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-61 Is your own bias showing through here? , Is your own bias showing through here? ,

]]> By: David Hughes http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-60 David Hughes Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:03:30 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-60 Hmm not sure an EPOC emulator running on Linux is a step forward ;-) Now an updated version of EPOC with instant on etc. would be very interesting. Imagine the EPOC app store to add new apps :-) Hmm not sure an EPOC emulator running on Linux is a step forward ;-)

Now an updated version of EPOC with instant on etc. would be very interesting. Imagine the EPOC app store to add new apps :-)

]]> By: Graham Tappenden http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-59 Graham Tappenden Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:46 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-59 > What we really need is a netbook running OS X - a MacBook Mini. > Now that will be the machine to have. Hi David, I have an Acer Aspire One (yes, one of those €200 things) with EPOC running on it! OK, to be precise it has Linux on it with the EPOC emulator running under Wine. But it was easy to install, as I showed in my video podcast at the weekend: http://tinyurl.com/d754jc Regards, Graham > What we really need is a netbook running OS X – a MacBook Mini.
> Now that will be the machine to have.

Hi David,

I have an Acer Aspire One (yes, one of those €200 things) with EPOC running on it!

OK, to be precise it has Linux on it with the EPOC emulator running under Wine. But it was easy to install, as I showed in my video podcast at the weekend: http://tinyurl.com/d754jc

Regards,
Graham

]]> By: David Hughes http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-58 David Hughes Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:27:49 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-58 @Tom Thanks for your comments. The image is really just to show what the netBook looked like; I simply Googled Psion netBook and chose that one as it looked nice :-) The Linux version I saw was definitely aimed at consumers using a "user friendly" version of Linux. The conversation I had with my ex-colleague suggested they were evaluating it for possible consumer release. With regard to you concern over Xp outselling Linux - I'm pretty tech savvy and have used many computers and OS over the years. I had a Linux Eee PC and gave up, swapping it for an XP version, as Linux is just too difficult. If I find it difficult then 99% of the netbook market are going to find it <em>REALLY </em>difficult. What we really need is a netbook running OS X - a MacBook Mini. Now <em>that </em>will be the machine to have. @Tom

Thanks for your comments.

The image is really just to show what the netBook looked like; I simply Googled Psion netBook and chose that one as it looked nice :-)

The Linux version I saw was definitely aimed at consumers using a “user friendly” version of Linux. The conversation I had with my ex-colleague suggested they were evaluating it for possible consumer release.

With regard to you concern over Xp outselling Linux – I’m pretty tech savvy and have used many computers and OS over the years. I had a Linux Eee PC and gave up, swapping it for an XP version, as Linux is just too difficult. If I find it difficult then 99% of the netbook market are going to find it REALLY difficult.

What we really need is a netbook running OS X – a MacBook Mini. Now that will be the machine to have.

]]> By: Tom http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-57 Tom Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:02:40 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-57 Hi David! Nice article, but to be exact: The image above shows a Psion Teklogix Netbook PRO with Windows CE 4.2., which was available til mid of 2006 (beginning of RoHS). The Psion LX (with a special Linux distribution) was based on a Netbook pro with larger RAM. And Psion was very late given intels Netbook start was around march 2008. But rights should be equal for all IMHO. And to Save the Netbooks: The original EPOC netBook idea was really far ahead of its time (it was GSM/GPRS time!) and all the young netbook sites 'losing thousands of dollar ad money' should remember that every development always has a ingenius and original starting point, and this cheap xp-notebooks are by far not the spearhead of our technology now. They are indeed a downsizing design by intel to have a foot in the door against the OLPC initiative. Latter was a genius idea with large media coverage worldwide. What worries me a bit is the clever 200€ 'Linux-Netbook' versions are not so successful than the boring 3-400€ xp variants... Bread and games for the masses... Cheers Tom PW Hi David!

Nice article, but to be exact:
The image above shows a Psion Teklogix Netbook PRO with Windows CE 4.2., which was available til mid of 2006 (beginning of RoHS). The Psion LX (with a special Linux distribution) was based on a Netbook pro with larger RAM. And Psion was very late given intels Netbook start was around march 2008. But rights should be equal for all IMHO.

And to Save the Netbooks:
The original EPOC netBook idea was really far ahead of its time (it was GSM/GPRS time!) and all the young netbook sites ‘losing thousands of dollar ad money’ should remember that every development always has a ingenius and original starting point, and this cheap xp-notebooks are by far not the spearhead of our technology now. They are indeed a downsizing design by intel to have a foot in the door against the OLPC initiative. Latter was a genius idea with large media coverage worldwide.
What worries me a bit is the clever 200€ ‘Linux-Netbook’ versions are not so successful than the boring 3-400€ xp variants… Bread and games for the masses…

Cheers
Tom
PW

]]> By: Ex-Mitarbeiter kritisiert Psion im Netbook-Streit | Netbooknews.de - das Netbook Blog http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-56 Ex-Mitarbeiter kritisiert Psion im Netbook-Streit | Netbooknews.de - das Netbook Blog Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:28:23 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-56 [...] es nach David Hughes, stellt Psions Gebahren eine große Peinlichkeit dar. Er sei enttäuscht und ein wenig betrübt [...] [...] es nach David Hughes, stellt Psions Gebahren eine große Peinlichkeit dar. Er sei enttäuscht und ein wenig betrübt [...]

]]> By: David Hughes http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-55 David Hughes Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:06 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-55 Thanks. I couldn't agree more. The hardware design was great; it just needed updating and a modern OS or even an updated version of EPOC/Symbian (although probably not possible) it would have been awesome. Thanks.

I couldn’t agree more. The hardware design was great; it just needed updating and a modern OS or even an updated version of EPOC/Symbian (although probably not possible) it would have been awesome.

]]> By: Save the Netbooks http://www.davidhughes.org/psion-and-the-netbook-trademark/#comment-54 Save the Netbooks Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:33:33 +0000 http://www.davidhughes.org/?p=842#comment-54 What we just couldn't understand was why they didn't just dust off the old netBook blueprints, refresh the OS and [re]release the thing as the "world's first and best netbook", proclaiming themselves to be a decade ahead of the competition? It's not too late, but they're already taking an absolute beating over this scandal and now have the added stigma of purgery by a senior employee. Furthermore they've pissed off just about every netbook related site (some of them down thousands of dollars in lost advertising revenue) so I would't be liking my chances of getting a positive review if they were to revive the product. The device looks (and sounds) great, but with a $1,299 pricetag and no supporting cloud computing infrastructure it's no surprise it was a stillborn. It wouldn't even fall into the "netbook" category they're claiming to have created. Anyway thanks for your insightful and heartfelt post, Cheers, Save the Netbooks What we just couldn’t understand was why they didn’t just dust off the old netBook blueprints, refresh the OS and [re]release the thing as the “world’s first and best netbook”, proclaiming themselves to be a decade ahead of the competition? It’s not too late, but they’re already taking an absolute beating over this scandal and now have the added stigma of purgery by a senior employee.

Furthermore they’ve pissed off just about every netbook related site (some of them down thousands of dollars in lost advertising revenue) so I would’t be liking my chances of getting a positive review if they were to revive the product.

The device looks (and sounds) great, but with a $1,299 pricetag and no supporting cloud computing infrastructure it’s no surprise it was a stillborn. It wouldn’t even fall into the “netbook” category they’re claiming to have created.

Anyway thanks for your insightful and heartfelt post,

Cheers,

Save the Netbooks

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