Psion Netbook

Psion Netbook ... provide instant access to your applications, data and the Internet. These are just some of the segments that gain productivity, efficiency and cost benefits from using effective mobile computing solutions: Field Sales and Support Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Financial Services, Insurance and Banking Transport, Logistics and Service.

netBook offers you the best of both worlds - sub-notebook format "instant-on" portable computing, combined with the industry standard Java platform for enterprise application deployment. netBook is for anywhere you need mobile access to data, and its stylish but practical casing means that it is equally at home outside in field service, on a manufacturing line, in a hospital or on a desk. netBook provides a complete range of communications options. A built in RS232 port interfaces to external devices, including PCs, while the PC Card slot supports Ethernet cards for LAN access. Third party GSM cards allow wireless Internet access, and a variety of available modem cards interface to PSTN and ISDN networks. A built in fast IrDA port supports wireless interface to GSM phones, IrDA equipped printers, and device-to-device communications. The benefits of mobile computing are widely recognized, but proprietary software and custom development environments have slowed deployment. netBook includes a high quality, high performance implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java Virtual Machine. Java technology offers rapid application deployment, application re-use and compatibility across the enterprise from hand-held to server. Until netBook the notebook PC has been the only solution for mobile Java applications. Now you can have the power of Java technology combined with the "instant on", ease of use, reliability and robustness of the netBook solution. netBook can reduce your costs, accelerate deployment and benefit your organization. In applications as diverse as wireless Field Sales access for Internet and intranet data, rugged mobile use in a service or manufacturing organization, or home banking/shopping applications netBook provides a new paradigm for mobile computing.