> There are hinged laptop-style cases for the iPad Mini
This still makes for a very different form factor to the original Psion devices, which are much more letterbox shaped than most small tablets, more akin to phones. Doing this you end up with something more like a modern "netbook".
You could slip a Psion 3a comfortably into the inside pocket of many suits, not a trick you can do with many 7 inch tablet toting a keyboard case as well.
Arguably a typical touchscreen phone with a hypothetical hinged clamshell keyboard case would be a lot closer, but of course not everything works in landscape on an iPhone.
The short-lived Motorola Droid is some of the closest anything in the smartphone era got to the spirit of the original devices for me:
This still makes for a very different form factor to the original Psion devices, which are much more letterbox shaped than most small tablets, more akin to phones. Doing this you end up with something more like a modern "netbook".
You could slip a Psion 3a comfortably into the inside pocket of many suits, not a trick you can do with many 7 inch tablet toting a keyboard case as well.
Arguably a typical touchscreen phone with a hypothetical hinged clamshell keyboard case would be a lot closer, but of course not everything works in landscape on an iPhone.
The short-lived Motorola Droid is some of the closest anything in the smartphone era got to the spirit of the original devices for me:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook