Psion Computer PLC has been famous as a manufacturer of leading handheld computer since '80s.
Psion PLC was established in 1984. Since Psion Organizer was gone on sale sophisticated internal applications and interface have been always estimated in Europe. In 1987 SIBO with 16bits OS, Psion series 3, In 1997 Psion series 5 with multi-task 32bits OS for ARM architecture were in market. Those were none other than the handheld machine beyond comparison.
Besides OPL developement language was adopted since the Organizer that made users be able to self-develope general purposed applications.

In market of 90s other handheld computers got into, e.g. HP 100LX and Palm Pilot, they didn't grew up as rival for Psion in Europe. Psion series 5 was called "exective item" at that time.
It's personal computer to make a rapid advance and Intel-Architecture = Microsoft got the market with positive feedback. Microsoft came to a rival for Psion. In 1999 in guessing Windows CE had appeared.
Psion had also a office suit which was compatible to office suits on personal computers. Psion had lots of digital contents free-charged more than others. Those might not be adavantageous factors in the market explosive increased.

Microsoft would make a oligopolistic market with its fame and bleed of personal computing. Psion also put on sale netBook with EPOC OS whether it's a counter or not to market of personal computing. However those were not successful. Cause it's diffirent segmentation for the handheld computing.

The market of handheld machine came to be caos, Palm OS popularity in USA and Japan, Psion EPOC OS hot-favored in Europe, and many manufacturers got in there, NOKIA leading cellular phone manufacturer decided to adopted Symbian OS, so-called note computer came to be downsized.
In short, after 2002, handheld machine with keyboard lost its market and almost manufacturers evacuated.

With those backgrounds, Psion PLC had no choice to do restructuring and gave voice to shift cellular phone. After that netBook and netPad were saled by Psion Teklogix though, netBook was large and weighty, netPad was just a physical distribution terminal, and in 2003 Windows CE was adopted for them instead of EPOC OS.

de facto, Psion = EPOC OS came to an end.



The OPL and the cross developement environment which had been took over more ten years accumulated lots of digital contents as in the centre of Europe. Those are assets which users could enjoy longer.
Those assets are not only application softwares but also various digital contents e.g. data of wines and restaurants, good scapes, movies, trivia and so on which are reflected Europian culture. It's impossible on other platforms.
Friendly and sophisticated user interface made it possible on which anyone could make database.

There are famous sites on the internet e.g. Psion Users Group Austria and Psion Place, Users Groups in worldwide on which such digital contents are distributed and be estimated. I also made a link of such sites at here



There is no longer market but Europe used one.
Auction makes short work of getting Psion, that's to say the eBay in Europe is good for it, on which multi goods Psion are always put on show besides they are cheaper than on other countries auctions in guessing.

And so I used the eBay when my first 5mx's flexi was broken.



The flexi has no hole with military criterion. The price might be around ten pounds.
http://www.psionflexi.fsbusiness.co.uk/

on eBay
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/psionflexi/
This dealer seems to always sale the flexi on eBay. Due to click 'item on sale' on the page and you would find the bidding page. According to his history its price would be around 10 ~ 15 pounds.

on his site
http://www.psionflexi.co.uk/
This dealer's site is still on the internet. However it's too expensive on it priced 25 pounds.

The original flexi(right image) has three holes. A hole of right salience is no problem but holes of left side are located in inflectional part and its result would make fissures on the flexi and the lines.
That's so called design mistake and its effect.

According to some reports there were many cases that flexi was broken after few years flequently using.
I thought I also used Psion flequently but my first one had worked seven years so I guessed that's not so flequently using I had used it almost everyday though ...

Part of connection is colored silver which might be nickel plate.
Salience right side in image is lines for pen-pointers and its part of connection should be clinch for adjust to connector of LCD side, the part of clinch would not be broken though ...
That's not good specification over all.



Of course it has no hole. Part of connector is gold plate.
It's strong as military criterion according to the dealer.

Salience part would be clinch as users care. That's terrible work though, if the part of lines would be broken it's easy to connect due to wires, so no need to feel afraid in fact.

This flexi is what I happened to find and bought. There were others made by third parties which I don't know how strong they were. Especially a flexi which is used by repair suppliers is unknown quality.
should be inquired before the commission.

According to my dim memories there was flexi designed as same as original one, in short, that's defective flexi with holes.

It's better to check Psion due to PsiWin before decompose -- is it really flexi broken?

It can be checked no better than to look over the mother board and the keyboard. That's done due to look files in Psion due to PsiWin on Windows. If the Psion kept cable setting with battery it's able to do as it stands. However the Psion in first boot due to insert battery is set infrated connection the setting should be changed without LCD.

in case procedure for Psion is follow as

This procedure would make Psion to be able to connect with PsiWin on personal computer. If not there is not defective of flexi but defective of other parts.




Get off three bolts located in cover of battery cell and located in holder of CR2032, located in insertion of stylus.

Get off back shell.

Pull out back cover with battery cover.






Get off three bolts fixing mother board.

Pull off connector of electronic buzzer.

The mother board could be floated, but still connected with keyboard and LCD due to flexi cables.






Open LCD partly which makes the board to float more.

It's easy to do it with Psion drawn up, and pull out flexi cables of keyboard and LCD.

Mother board would be off.






Get off arms which fixes shell of LCD to frame.


-------- it's easy to understand without images as follows --------

Pull out two pins which fixes shell of LCD and keyboard.

Pull out keyboard due to slide on frame.

Get off shell of LCD and pull out LCD, get off cover and back lid.




Check flexi at this phase.
Connect mother board and LCD, keyboard and boot Psion with AC adaptor. And try to bend the flexi which is expected to display normally.

That's probable to make useless effort in case bad breaking of wire ...






LCD displayed normally due to just pinch lines side of the hole by pincette.
I understand to try to repair the flexi with fitting wire considering labor hour for exchanging the flexi though, it's same as to have a time bomb isn't it? ...

try to use stylus normally.


This method for check should be done after exchanging the flexi.




I compared the new flexi to the original flexi after get off the original flexi broken and so I found part of connection to LCD side of the new flexi is longer than the original flexi. I wonder it's to be cut off or to be fold back though, well it's okay whichever.

Attention not to strip off the lands of LCD side when the original flexi is got off. The land is weak for over heat and tensility, and it's difficult to repair in case strip off.
It should be done to mop up the solder as possible and not to compel flexi to strip, to get off with proper heat.
-- especially never strip with short heat.






After the flexi was got off it's important to check there are measurable solder on the land. If solder is too few it's difficult to do soldering. If solder is too much it's easy to be bridge-short.

Put solder on connection part of LCD side of new flexi.

After soldering new flexi to LCD, check all connection by testor, or it might be good checking method due to temporary assembly as previous clause.



Do procedure above mentioned backward