Psion Ace… the unreleased UIQ jewel
Some more UIQ historical lesson today before I shutdown my entire system. This time, I present Psion ACE, only existed in a wooden prototype form and was showcased to media. They all went gaga over it’s radical & extreme design.
ACE has 3 screens. In which all can be switched on to view different things. For example, you can write your To Do List on 1 screen, at the same time viewing your calendar on another screen and have a Yahoo page opened in another screen. Nothing ever come close to this…
ACE uses 4-way navi for basic control and has a camera lens located on the main unit together with a 3G radio and Bluetooth module, and a docking station is included for battery recharging (as a side note; battery technology will hopefully have improved by the time such a device hits the market, since powering three displays simultaneously would theoretically make for a battery lifetime of approximately three hours at the most.
As you can see, ACE was using Symbian OS with UIQ 1.0 interface in all 3 screens. Touch screen with stylus was the main way to enter data.
What do you think about ACE? Salivating yet… 
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