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Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android
Starting in November of 1994, perhaps fearing the Apple Newton which released in August of 1993, Colly Myers at Psion began working on a 32 bit version of EPOC written primarily in C++ for ARM CPUs. An inexpensive companion device whose data would easily sync with a PC running Windows 95 and Outlook 97 was extremely attractive to people in the US, and the Palm Pilot was the fastest selling computer product in history in 1997. It was capable of instant messenging, fax, email (smtp, pop3, imap4), HTTP 1.1 (HTML 3.2, Java Applets, JS, SSL, GIF/JPG), and it still supported PsiWin with conversions of native document formats to those of MS Office or Lotus SmartSuite as well as synchronization with Outlook and Exchange.
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