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Psion Series 7

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The Psion Series 7 is the executive flagship of the Psion range, with leather inlays, a superbly readable colour screen, a fully typable keyboard and plenty of expansion.
The unit has the usual Psion clamshell hinge that allows the screen to angle and sit forward at the same time. This is much more stable than the usual arrangement, yet still keeps the whole casing down to around AS size.
Inside is an Intel StrongARM 1100 running at 132MHz, with 16M of RAM catering for data. The Series 7 also uses both PC Card and CF Type II expansion slots on the left and right sides, plus an IrDA window on the back. Psion claims the lithium ion battery lasts eight hours, which will keep most people going for two to three days without charging.
No modem is included, although a blanking plate suggests other markets may have one fitted. Like the Revo and the Ericsson, the Scries 7 uses the Symbian EPOC OS which offers top quality display and menuing on the colour screen that is easily the best of its kind. Fast operation, simple yet capable menus and input options, plus an easy-to-use mix of keyboard and touchscreen input make the whole machine a delight to use. The only gripe is the weird triangular stylus — but that’s being picky.
Almost all functions are accessible through icons surrounding the screen. This sounds fiddly, but works very well. The applications that come with it are the best of the breed, including word processing, spreadsheets, graphing, databases, sketching, jotter and Web browsing. All are highly compatible with desktop variants from major names such as Microsoft, Lotus, Corel, Borland and FoxPro.
The unit comes complete with a serial link cable for synchronising and a power supply. The PsiWin2 CD is curiously labelled for the Series 5 units, but works fine with the 7. However, extra applications are only demo versions, which is disappointing when compared to the software provided with some Pocket PCs. Synchronising can be automatic or drag-and-drop with automatic file translation.
The only real complaint against the Psion is its price, which puts it firmly into the executive bracket. Perhaps this explains the leather inlay.

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