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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.
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Comparison of the EO 440 Personal Communicator (1993) and the Amazon Kindle 2 e-book reader (2009). Both have reflective displays (no backlight). The EO has a liquid crystal display, the Kindle an electrophoretic
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Two models, the Communicator 440 and 880, were produced and measure about the size of a small clipboard. Both are powered by the
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chip, created by AT&T specifically for running code written in the
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In 2012, PC Magazine called the AT&T EO 440, "the first true
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CPU
AT&T Hobbit

tablet computer
AT&T Corporation
GO Corporation
Personal Communicator
personal digital assistant
wireless
Apple Newton
David Kelley Design
frog design
Matsushita
Olivetti
Marubeni
New York Stock Exchange
Andersen Consulting
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
FD Titus & Sons
Woolworths
phablet
AT&T Hobbit
C programming language
VGA
SCSI
wireless
cellular network
modem
fax

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