The Psion netBook is a small subnotebook type computer developed by Psion. Released in 1999, it was aimed at the mobile enterprise market.

Similar in design to the later, consumer-oriented Psion Series 7, the netBook has a clamshell design, a VGA-resolution touch-sensitive colour screen, 32 MB RAM, 190 MHz StrongARM SA-1100 processor and a QWERTY keyboard. The RAM is upgradeable through the addition of an extra 32 MB chip. The netBook is powered by a removable Lithium Ion rechargeable battery, giving a battery life of between eight and ten hours.

The netBook runs the EPOC ER5 operating system (the predecessor of SymbianOS).
Unlike the Psion Series 7, the netBook operating system runs from RAM. A Java run time environment, conforming to Java version 1.1.8, is available.

In October 2003 Psion Teklogix announced the NETBOOK PRO, replacing the original netBook. This was similar to the earlier model, but upgraded with a 16-bit colour SVGA (800 × 600 pixel) display, 128 MB of RAM, and a 400 MHz Intel XScale PXA255 processor running Windows CE .NET 4.2 instead of EPOC. It is also possible to run Linux on this model.
Included software
Agenda – a personal information management program
Bombs – a minesweeper game
Calc – a calculator
Comms – a terminal emulator
Contacts – a contacts manager
Data – a flat-file database program
Email – an email, SMS and fax client
Jotter – a multipage scratchpad
NetStatRF – a WiFi card monitor
Program – an OPL program editor
Record – a voice recording program, for use with the in-built microphone
Sheet – a spreadsheet and graphing package
Sketch – a drawing program (for use with the touch-screen interface)
Spell – a spellchecker, thesaurus and anagram program
Time – a world clock and alarm program
Opera – a web browser
Word – a word-processor

Our Psion netBook is the original NetBook and was kindly donated by Netherhall School, Cambridge

Manufacturer: Psion
Date: 1999

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