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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
The Psion 5 was a netbook-sized clamshell device. What makes you think the keyboard for it would work on a smartphone-sized device? Two very different devices, at two very different sizes - you can't just make a big keyboard smaller and have it work.  |
Sorry Jason but you are wrong. The Psion 7 was the original netbook, Size 235 x 182 x 37mm. (Actually, the Series 7 of 1999 was the consumer version of the Psion netbook.) Psion copyrighted the name netbook. Modern so called netbooks start at around 260mm x 180mm x 19mm, and go bigger.
The Psion 5 was a smaller machine. Size 170 x 90 x 23mm. I still have mine. I was happy to carry it around in a pouch on my belt for 3 years, so it would have been OK as a phone. Its not that much bigger than my HP hx4700 which is 132 x76.2x15.2 mm.
I agree the 5 is a little bigger than a typical tiny screened smartphone, but I'd be happier to have a screen big enough to use. The 5 is 40 mm longer than the new Toshiba TG01 Measuring 129 x 70 x 9.9mm. You are probably right that many people would consider it too big, but I don't.