Pocket Secretary Appearance, What Do They Look Like Options

[Drraagh]

Hey,

New poster here, but had a question that has sort of bugged me for a while. Perhaps someone can point me to the answer or at least help shed some light on the situation.

I own the SR1 core book, the SR3 core book and a bunch of supplimental books and adventures. I know what credsticks look like, I know what various drones look like, but I have never seen a 'Here's what pocket secretaries look like' sort of thing. I haven't looked in the SR4 book for this yet, but then I'm playing in an SR3 game anyway.

In one game I played, the gm had them be business card shaped with a 3D holographic head projected from it for the user to interact with. Another person had described it like a Blackberry sort of device. I've seen it also described as a closed case, folded open to access it sort of like some of the organizers out there or even as the Ninento DS. Also, I've seen the versions that sound like the PSP or the Origami. So, there's just about as many versions as there are items on the market.

I suppose there could be different versions, with diferent features for everyone. Like one might have a projected IR keyboard like this while another might actually have a keyboard built into it with a stylus or handwritting technology. One might read stuff back through a text to speech program or virtual representation while another might display it on a screen.

I don't have my books in front of me at the moment, but I remember the pocsec was listed as having a phone system in it or something similar to that. Not sure if it has a net connection though, but if it does, you would need some way of displaying the posts on the Shadow Forums since people use all sorts of animations and such, or would it just convert it to simple text?