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| Release date | April 1993 |
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| CPU | AT&T Hobbit |
The EO is an early commercial tablet computer that was created by Eo Inc. (later acquired by AT&T Corporation), and released in April 1993.[1] Eo (Latin for "I go") was the hardware spin-out of GO Corporation. Officially named the AT&T EO Personal Communicator, it is similar to a large personal digital assistant with wireless communications,[2] and competed against the Apple Newton. The unit was produced in conjunction with David Kelley Design, frog design, and the Matsushita, Olivetti and Marubeni corporations.
Among the EO customers AT&T claimed were: New York Stock Exchange, Andersen Consulting, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, FD Titus & Sons and Woolworths.
Eo, Inc., 52 percent owned by AT&T, shut down operations on July 29, 1994, after failing to meet its revenue targets and to secure the funding to continue. It was reported that 10,000 of the computers had been sold.[3]
In 2012, PC Magazine called the AT&T EO 440, "the first true phablet".[4]
- ^ Jerry Kaplan (1994). Startup : a Silicon Valley adventure. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-025731-4.
- ^ Ken Maki. (1993). The AT&T EO travel guide. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-00783-8.
- ^ Smith, Ernie (January 3, 2020). "Fax on the beach: The story of the audacious, totally calamitous iPad of the '90s". Input. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
- ^ "Enter the Phablet: A History of Phone-Tablet Hybrids". PCmag, February 13, 2012, Sasha Segan.