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Monday, June 30, 2003 |
Petition for a Symbian netBookReceived an email from the founder of a local Malaysian Symbian User Group http://www.mysymbianusers.com highlighting a petition by SymbianOS users world wide requesting Psion Teklogics to also produce a Symbian netBook pro, alongside the expected (or was it rumored??) release of a Windows CE netBook pro. I'll quote the email below:- Quote: Dear all, Psion Teklogix is believed to release a netBook Pro which will run on Win CE OS. However, Symbian community worldwide (triggered from people at www.psionplace.com, who worked very hard to prepare the petition) is putting up an online petition to support the development of a Symbian OS netBook. This petition will be handed over to Psion Teklogix. Please read and sign the petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/nbookpro/petition.html For more news, visit :- www.mysymbianusers.com The petition, in fact, has been undersigned by both several individual enthusiastic end users and representatives of heavy user organisations, as well as a large number of representatives of Symbian OS software houses and Psion Teklogix system integrators and distributors too. Please note that this initiative is definitely NOT against Windows or Psion Teklogix's choice of another O.S. for the new machine but absolutely in favour of implementing ALSO a Symbian version on it. Anyway, I would recommend everybody - also those just having a Revo or a 5mx/mc218 as well as a 7650, P800 or a 92xx - to give this petition a chance. All your contributions and time is highly appreciated. Rgds End Quote. I have an EPOC based netbook and really like the stability and simplicity of the OS. When Psion announced to withdraw from the PDA market, I was quite dissapointed. Not that I feel sorry for the demise of the EPOC based PDAs but rather, I think, the absense of another competitor in the PDA market would make Palm and/or Microsoft slow in introducing new technology. Luckily, Microsoft has been very aggressive in marketing its PocketPC system that it made Palm took this as a serious threat, to the benefit of the end users, that's you and me. So far, Symbian is sliding into the mobile phone/communicator market ... with confidence. Nokia and Sony Ericsson, for example, have faith in the Symbian OS to run their hardware. posted by Mohd Nazley Fadhley at 12:43 AM | permalink | 
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