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Article: SuperPsionic: mobile computing.(palmtop computer maker Psion)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1996
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GLORIOUS things of Psion are spoken by the businessmen who use its Series 3 electronic organisers. They effuse about the British company's miniature computers in much the same way that their predecessors raved about the product's paper precursor, the Filofax. Last year Psion sold 350,000 of the machines, which pack diary, address book and other computer tools for the slim-fingered into a plastic shell a little larger than a spectacles case. That is about a third of total world sales of such "palmtop" computers-more than either Sharp Electronics or Hewlett-Packard account for.
Psion's net profits rose 77% last year to 7.5m ($11.8m) on sales of 90.5m, 48% up on 1994. ...