Posted on 27-Oct-2003 22:18
| Filed under: News
: Computing
Coxion, a Finnish company, is launching the WebBook. This device sits half-way through from a PDA to a laptop. It combines PDAs' instant usability, touchscreen, and promissed battery life of 6 hours (or 2 hours with GPRS connection on). At the same time it also sports a full QWERTY keyboard and high resolution 800 x 480 screen.
The WebBook is a mobile computer with built in GPRS modem, running on Microsoft CE.Net operating system.
The built in dual-band GPRS/GSM modem is a Class 8 device, allowing users to send and receive SMS and connect to internet, email or your office network, via GPRS 900/1800 Mhz.
CompactFlash card like WLAN, camera, Bluetooth, GPS, Memory cards can be used to expand this WebBook.
Software:
Mobile Internet Explorer
Microsoft Mobile Office with Excel, Word and Powerpoint viewer.