Psion Series 5mx Handheld PDA Review

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When only "rich" people had pocket computers! Now everyone including even many 5 year olds have one!!(smartphone) I kind of want to get one of these seems neat. I want to see what the grandaddy to our smartphones and tablets are like!

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The irony being that Psion were a British company, they just had a lot of sales in the far east...

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[@ariekanibalie]

Had a psion clone from another brand and thought it was the best thing ever, just for having a portable word editor and full keyboard. Only it had the same problem they all had that you could only open and close it so many times before breaking the connection cable inside. Id be in the market for a modern ultra-portable dedicated office editing device, maybe with an e-ink screen. Something like Freewrite, but smaller and closeable, and maybe also not for the price of a normal laptop.

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Was it the Ericsson MC218? Since that's basically a rebadged Series 5mx

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@@SamSquids That's the one! It was already going on obsolete when I got one second-hand, but such a wonderful device. I wrote whole articles on it and even used it as an e-reader of sorts, long before those came out. I'd read about the manufacturing flaw in advance so I'd close it as slowly and carefully as possible, and only when necessary. To no avail, one day it was dead and that was that.

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Another thing that kinda sucked was that the memory was powered by a lithium battery, so if the AA's ran out and you had to change 'em, there was a change the device's whole memory would be wiped if that was out of juice

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@@ariekanibalie then again, volatile memory was common on devices back in the 90s, I have a handspring visor deluxe that has the same issue where if power completely runs out, you lose your data.

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@@SamSquids I also bought a Neo2 Alphasmart some years ago. Not as portable as a Psion but good enough if you're after a distraction-free writing device.

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By the way, yes! I would like to see a follow-up video.

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I'm pretty sure I was the only one using one of these in college when everyone was using Palm and Handspring PDAs. Laptops were still rare and Wifi was a myth or unheard of (I actually helped with the campus wifi roll out). Those 802.11a PCMCIA cards were pricey! Kids are so lucky now.

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So, Psion was originally a British company and these are super common in the UK. I don’t know about the numbering, but there was never a series 1 or 2 to my knowledge (it was just the psion organiser and organiser II) and there was a series 7 also, with a model called the Netbook (a LONG time before netbook became a mini PC laptop fad.) There we’re also worbabouts, which were industrial units.

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there were also models like the Series 3, 3a, 3c and 3mx

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even a rebadged series 3 by Acorn called the pocket book II

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@@SamSquids Ah yeah, I was implying the 3 series existed, but forget to add it specifically... lol. I used to work for a company that used the industrial versions for a bunch of products, so I know the Workabouts quite well. They were basically 3 Series in another form factor.

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How’s it going Ian?

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I have it and it still works

[@DdlyHeadshot]

Psion invented the PDA earlier with the Psion Organiser in the 1980s, so they weren't exactly new kids on the block at this stage, however by this point, Windows CE was gaining ground which had the advantage of compatibility between many devices (like Android today), so it was hard to compete...

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I think a follow-up video would be fun!

[@44CT232]

I have one of these as well. It's definitely a pretty neat device, but let down by that extremely fragile hinge mechanism. Mine is even more broken than yours, and I'm considering just gluing it permanently open, just to prevent it falling apart completely or the screen cable snapping. I was actually able to get mine on the internet using an old cellphone that had an IR port, which the Psion was able to use as a modem. Obviously the built-in browser is very limited on the modern web, I didn't think to try the Email client though, so I have no idea if that would still work.

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One device I'd like to get my hands on is the Psion Revo, it basically is similar to the 5 and 5mx but with a built in rechargeable battery and simplified hinge mechanism

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the 3ds xl you showed in the review is the same one i have

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been looking for a 5mx for a long time now, just miss one on my countrys "ebay"

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I want to see a follow up my guy

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If this had a slightly faster processor, better screen and some connectivity would be sweet and really cheap

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Whoa!

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By now someone has probably told you that the 5mx does indeed have a Web browser.

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those remind of nokia communicators

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But can it run Doom?

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Actually yes, www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/avzamw/psion_series_5_yep_runs_doom/ not as good as doom on a 486, but still

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