No sooner had we mused about the need for a PDA with the form factor of a mini-laptop than Psion announced its NetBook Pro, which weighs 2.8 pounds (more than our Toshiba Portege 2000!) and runs Windows CE .Net 4.2 and has an 8.5-inch color touchscreen, a 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, USB ports, and slots for SD, CF, and PCMCIA expansion cards. The NetBook Pro also comes with Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Word Pad, and ActiveSync for sychronizing with a PC. Definitely a step in the right direction, but with a retail price of $1,500, we won’t exactly be rushing out to buy one of these — which is just as well, since Psion says they’re aiming mainly at the business market anyway.
PS – Someone’s started an online petition to try and get Psion to offer the NetBook Pro with the Symbian operating system on it, rather than Windows CE. Best of luck with that!
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