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#5
Originally Posted by fpp
Just been through the diaporama for memory's sake (I also have worn out a Series5 and two 5mx over the years... darned ribbon cable :-).

I agree that the general tone of the comments (and especially the "questions" about screen definition, batteries, hard disk etc.) are pretty clueless and amateurish, not to mention dreaming of having the beast run XP, of all things... However, the art job is pretty good IMHO and I could imagine this as a (somehow conservative) vision of what Psion could/should be doing at this time if they had stayed on the market. Just add Wifi and BT, of course :-)
There really are only two things I'd like to add to my 5mx to make it fully useable again: the first is a better screen; not better resolution, or even colour, but simply one that is more readable. The 5mx has one of the worst LCD screens I've ever come across.

The second addition would be a little battery-powered box that plugged into the serial port and provided ethernet and WiFi, something like the WiFi sled a company makes for the Treo 600 and 650. A USB port would have been nice as well.

Ahh... the dreams we have...

(Sidenote: you can rest assured that, if Psion were still around and make stuff, what they would come up with would look nothing like anything anyone else could imagine. They were famous for being utterly inpredictable)