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Palm OS and the devices that ran it - a retrospective on the popular PDA and precursor to the smartphone.
Comparing to the current generation of gadgets - the Humane AI pin and the Rabbit.... thing, you can see how revolutionary and polished the Pilot was.
posted by scolbath at 1:11 PM on May 1 [5 favorites]
posted by scolbath at 1:11 PM on May 1 [5 favorites]
The Palm 5 really was something.
posted by whatevernot at 1:14 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
posted by whatevernot at 1:14 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
Thanks for the link to the PDA Wikipedia entry, which reminded me that I owed a Psion Series 3 in law school and boy howdy did that thing feel like the honest-to-goodness-jet-pack future.
posted by The Bellman at 1:21 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
posted by The Bellman at 1:21 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
I can't overstate how awesome the IrDA port was and how much I miss it. You could just beam someone your contact information, or a note, or an app, without any kind of funky configuration-- just point your devices at each other and bloop! there it is. At one point there were even some bus kiosk ads that had little IR emitters built into them, so you could just install an app standing there waiting for a bus. It is insane that exchanging data between two people is so much more difficult now. Remember this? Madness.
posted by phooky at 1:26 PM on May 1 [13 favorites]
posted by phooky at 1:26 PM on May 1 [13 favorites]
I loved the heck out of my Handspring Visor Edge, with a very fidget-friendly sidehacking stylus. I also had some flavor of HP iPAQ that was truly futuristic, due to the built-in WiFi!
I can't overstate how awesome the IrDA port was and how much I miss it.
The iPAQ had a universal remote control app that was super fun.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:30 PM on May 1 [11 favorites]
I can't overstate how awesome the IrDA port was and how much I miss it.
The iPAQ had a universal remote control app that was super fun.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:30 PM on May 1 [11 favorites]
Thanks for the link to the PDA Wikipedia entry, which reminded me that I owed a Psion Series 3 in law school and boy howdy did that thing feel like the honest-to-goodness-jet-pack future.
I still have a Psion Series 5mx, and even today it is still an amazing little device with a very usable keyboard, but that runs EPOC instead of Palm OS. The only Palm OS device I owned was an AlphaSmart Dana. It had a nicer screen than other AlphaSmarts, but it felt slow and clunky by comparison as Palm OS meant no more instant on.
posted by fimbulvetr at 1:35 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I still have a Psion Series 5mx, and even today it is still an amazing little device with a very usable keyboard, but that runs EPOC instead of Palm OS. The only Palm OS device I owned was an AlphaSmart Dana. It had a nicer screen than other AlphaSmarts, but it felt slow and clunky by comparison as Palm OS meant no more instant on.
posted by fimbulvetr at 1:35 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I never had a PalmPilot back when they were new. But a while ago, someone emptied out a drawer at my office that was full of defunct tech, including a Palm IIIx and its base. I tried swapping the batteries (at first I was perplexed that it wouldn't charge from its base—that's only for syncing), but to no avail. It's dead.
I kept it on my desk. It's the only decoration in my cube.
posted by adamrice at 1:37 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
I kept it on my desk. It's the only decoration in my cube.
posted by adamrice at 1:37 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
I had a second generation Palm Personnel that I bought senior year of college with my computer science co-op job money. My professors were mystified and amazed. Even more so when I showed them that there was rudimentary facilities for writing and executing "computer programs" on the device. This would have been the 1997-1998 time frame.
Later I went to work in a big Fortune 50 company and there was much drama about if PalmPilots were an expansible item. Senior management was a no for quite some time as they didn't see the value. They were blind of course to the fact that each of them had a living, breathing "PalmPilot" that prepared their whole day for them.
posted by mmascolino at 1:49 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
Later I went to work in a big Fortune 50 company and there was much drama about if PalmPilots were an expansible item. Senior management was a no for quite some time as they didn't see the value. They were blind of course to the fact that each of them had a living, breathing "PalmPilot" that prepared their whole day for them.
posted by mmascolino at 1:49 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
The only thing I regret about buying my first Palm IIIx was that I got it on "sale" at Fry's for what was then (and even today) a rather eye-watering $250ish, only to have the price of the same model drop below $100 in about 2 weeks after that because newer editions were coming out.
Then on the other hand (palm?) not long after that people started giving them to me for free as hand-me-downs to the point that I think I had over twenty of them, which was handy when you needed spare parts.
They were really, really cool devices and reminded me of a pocket sized original Mac classic down to the clunky display, OS and software. And I did actually use them for useful things, especially when paired with the cool folding keyboard that you could just slot a compatible Palm device into and type away.
But in reality I mostly I used them as an ebook reader and games platform. Especially for Dopewars, and later, puzzle games like Bejeweled clones. I remember working in IT and when we'd go out for smoke breaks it sounded like a casino or coin-op arcade because everyone had their Palm out playing, (usually) bejeweled clones and every so often you could hear someone get a crazy combo run and there would be some non-verbal noise or murmur of assent or even a verbalized "nice run" while we all hammered away at our dopamine monkey buttons.
I also remember playing a pretty cool rogue-like top-down, tiled RPG that I want to say was one of the Avernum series from Spiderweb Software.
And on preview: Yeah, the TV remote apps were really cool and useful. You could be in a waiting room, bar or whatever and change it away from Fox News or whatever, or at least turn down the volume from ear-splitting levels. When I was living with my late grandma being a live-in caretaker she'd often fall asleep with the remote in her hand so I could change it to something less terrible than the evening news after she dozed off.
And this might be just a me thing, but I remember loading mine up with all kinds of useful stuff like star maps or topo maps when going out on group camping trips or outdoor raves and being all fired up to use it, and then I'd almost invariably drop it at some point before I even had a chance to use it for anything fun, and it would blow up into pieces and I couldn't get it put back together fast enough to put the batteries back in before the memory wiped itself, and then I'd be left with a wiped, stock Palm Pilot until I got it home to a dock and hotsync to restore it.
Granted by that point most of my Palm devices were a mish-mash of random parts because I was mixing and matching covers, but they were a weird mix of incredibly fragile but also so dirt simple that they'd work even when they were held together with tape. It's just that the cases were so brittle that even if you had all the screws in them a small drop would make them fly apart like popcorn and it was like playing a very stressful game of Concentration trying to get the batteries back into it before you lost all of your apps and data.
My favorite out of all of them was probably the IIIc because A) it was in color and backlit but B) it was still Palm OS 3 or whatever. I didn't like Palm OS 5 or the newer models as much, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me in hindsight.
The one I really lusted over was the Sony VAIO version that had a built in camera, MP3/music support, a color screen, (I think) a MemoryGate card reader, a physical keyboard and it had that cool screen hinge that let you use it either like a clamshell flip phone or a normal palmtop.
But in hindsight I've seen enough retrotech reviews of those to know that like a lot of bleeding edge VAIO gadgets they over-promised and under-delivered because they were really pushing what that tech could even reliably do, and those things were retailing for insane flagship phone prices that were closer to small laptop prices than palmtop prices.
posted by loquacious at 1:50 PM on May 1 [3 favorites]
Then on the other hand (palm?) not long after that people started giving them to me for free as hand-me-downs to the point that I think I had over twenty of them, which was handy when you needed spare parts.
They were really, really cool devices and reminded me of a pocket sized original Mac classic down to the clunky display, OS and software. And I did actually use them for useful things, especially when paired with the cool folding keyboard that you could just slot a compatible Palm device into and type away.
But in reality I mostly I used them as an ebook reader and games platform. Especially for Dopewars, and later, puzzle games like Bejeweled clones. I remember working in IT and when we'd go out for smoke breaks it sounded like a casino or coin-op arcade because everyone had their Palm out playing, (usually) bejeweled clones and every so often you could hear someone get a crazy combo run and there would be some non-verbal noise or murmur of assent or even a verbalized "nice run" while we all hammered away at our dopamine monkey buttons.
I also remember playing a pretty cool rogue-like top-down, tiled RPG that I want to say was one of the Avernum series from Spiderweb Software.
And on preview: Yeah, the TV remote apps were really cool and useful. You could be in a waiting room, bar or whatever and change it away from Fox News or whatever, or at least turn down the volume from ear-splitting levels. When I was living with my late grandma being a live-in caretaker she'd often fall asleep with the remote in her hand so I could change it to something less terrible than the evening news after she dozed off.
And this might be just a me thing, but I remember loading mine up with all kinds of useful stuff like star maps or topo maps when going out on group camping trips or outdoor raves and being all fired up to use it, and then I'd almost invariably drop it at some point before I even had a chance to use it for anything fun, and it would blow up into pieces and I couldn't get it put back together fast enough to put the batteries back in before the memory wiped itself, and then I'd be left with a wiped, stock Palm Pilot until I got it home to a dock and hotsync to restore it.
Granted by that point most of my Palm devices were a mish-mash of random parts because I was mixing and matching covers, but they were a weird mix of incredibly fragile but also so dirt simple that they'd work even when they were held together with tape. It's just that the cases were so brittle that even if you had all the screws in them a small drop would make them fly apart like popcorn and it was like playing a very stressful game of Concentration trying to get the batteries back into it before you lost all of your apps and data.
My favorite out of all of them was probably the IIIc because A) it was in color and backlit but B) it was still Palm OS 3 or whatever. I didn't like Palm OS 5 or the newer models as much, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me in hindsight.
The one I really lusted over was the Sony VAIO version that had a built in camera, MP3/music support, a color screen, (I think) a MemoryGate card reader, a physical keyboard and it had that cool screen hinge that let you use it either like a clamshell flip phone or a normal palmtop.
But in hindsight I've seen enough retrotech reviews of those to know that like a lot of bleeding edge VAIO gadgets they over-promised and under-delivered because they were really pushing what that tech could even reliably do, and those things were retailing for insane flagship phone prices that were closer to small laptop prices than palmtop prices.
posted by loquacious at 1:50 PM on May 1 [3 favorites]
I redid my handwriting to mirror Graffiti in late middle school/early high school and it took an embarrassing couple of months to give up and write like a normal person. RIP Handspring Visor Deluxe, you beautiful blue bastard.
posted by wakannai at 2:01 PM on May 1 [4 favorites]
posted by wakannai at 2:01 PM on May 1 [4 favorites]
Yes the Cliés’ ID (industrial design) were pure sex ca. 2002. Overall the platform got Frankenstein’s Monsterish as licensees attempted to differentiate themselves, but Sony tended toward clean designs..
posted by torokunai at 2:11 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
posted by torokunai at 2:11 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I just recycled the CDMA cellular modem I had for my Palm Vx! That was a sneak peek at the future.
posted by advicepig at 2:13 PM on May 1
posted by advicepig at 2:13 PM on May 1
In the 90s, with the state of the art advancing seemingly a lot faster than the curriculum at the school where I was studying, I took a hiatus from university and worked in the tech industry for a while without finishing my computer engineering degree. Later, in the latter years of the decade, I returned to school to finish up. Somewhere along the line I picked up a PalmPilot when they were still under the US Robotics brand and by the time I graduated I had developed an interest in seeing where handheld computing went.
Moving west to Seattle after graduation, I wound up landing my first post-graduation job as a junior developer at Palm's wireless division (the majority of the company was headquartered in California but their wireless folks worked out of offices in Bellevue, WA) where I was assigned to a project that was developing a handheld with wireless internet capabilities. Eventually released as the i705, it was an intermediate step between the primitive pager-like connectivity of the Palm VII and later devices that evolved into the smartphones we all carry today. If you have no memory of the i705 it's because FCC approval for a wireless device took quite a while in those days and by the time we had the device ready for retail we were going head-to-head with the early Blackberry devices, which totally kicked our butt in the marketplace.
It didn't help that during that time the company was going through its preparations for its underwhelming IPO and a lot was becoming clear about the financial shenanigans that had occurred under US Robotics / 3Com leadership. At any rate, my fairly brief tenure there ended when the troubled organization re-merged with Handspring, a competing handheld vendor formed by Hawkins & Dubinsky, the original Palm founders. The post-merger organization elected to keep the wireless division that Handspring had created and so pretty much everyone in the Palm wireless division I'd worked for wound up laid off, albeit not at the same time.
I still remember the technology fondly (PalmOS, I mean - the Mobitex network we were using for wireless data was a godawful hack, albeit probably a necessary step in the development of better data networks) though the company itself was pretty dysfunctional. Should I care to go digging, somewhere in the attic (probably) I still have a box full of souvenirs from that time, including a prototype model i705 with a special pre-release transparent case and another PalmOS PDA manufactured by Symbol with a built-in UPC scanning laser (plus a small smattering of the assorted early-2000s corporate swag and trinkets we were showered with in that era.)
I don't miss those days very much but I do miss the sense of promise and excitement we had. Despite the very significant limitations of the early wireless devices it was clear to all of us the vast potential that an always-connected pocket computing device could deliver. It's been both gratifying and horrifying to see some of the ways in which things have worked out. These days I'm much older and far more wary and cynical about the utopian promise of new tech.
posted by Nerd of the North at 2:23 PM on May 1 [10 favorites]
Moving west to Seattle after graduation, I wound up landing my first post-graduation job as a junior developer at Palm's wireless division (the majority of the company was headquartered in California but their wireless folks worked out of offices in Bellevue, WA) where I was assigned to a project that was developing a handheld with wireless internet capabilities. Eventually released as the i705, it was an intermediate step between the primitive pager-like connectivity of the Palm VII and later devices that evolved into the smartphones we all carry today. If you have no memory of the i705 it's because FCC approval for a wireless device took quite a while in those days and by the time we had the device ready for retail we were going head-to-head with the early Blackberry devices, which totally kicked our butt in the marketplace.
It didn't help that during that time the company was going through its preparations for its underwhelming IPO and a lot was becoming clear about the financial shenanigans that had occurred under US Robotics / 3Com leadership. At any rate, my fairly brief tenure there ended when the troubled organization re-merged with Handspring, a competing handheld vendor formed by Hawkins & Dubinsky, the original Palm founders. The post-merger organization elected to keep the wireless division that Handspring had created and so pretty much everyone in the Palm wireless division I'd worked for wound up laid off, albeit not at the same time.
I still remember the technology fondly (PalmOS, I mean - the Mobitex network we were using for wireless data was a godawful hack, albeit probably a necessary step in the development of better data networks) though the company itself was pretty dysfunctional. Should I care to go digging, somewhere in the attic (probably) I still have a box full of souvenirs from that time, including a prototype model i705 with a special pre-release transparent case and another PalmOS PDA manufactured by Symbol with a built-in UPC scanning laser (plus a small smattering of the assorted early-2000s corporate swag and trinkets we were showered with in that era.)
I don't miss those days very much but I do miss the sense of promise and excitement we had. Despite the very significant limitations of the early wireless devices it was clear to all of us the vast potential that an always-connected pocket computing device could deliver. It's been both gratifying and horrifying to see some of the ways in which things have worked out. These days I'm much older and far more wary and cynical about the utopian promise of new tech.
posted by Nerd of the North at 2:23 PM on May 1 [10 favorites]
Oh man, I so miss the days of my Palm Tungsten T that slid open and closed Matrix-style. I had that thing connected to the internet with Bluetooth+GPRS via my teeny tiny Ericsson candy bar phone, just before the actual smartphone days. It felt like magic to be able to pop it open and look something up on the web from anywhere. A few years later and everybody could do it!
posted by montag2k at 2:34 PM on May 1 [4 favorites]
posted by montag2k at 2:34 PM on May 1 [4 favorites]
There are quite a few archives of Palm programs, manuals, and so on. You can even emulate various Palm OS devices pretty easily.
palmdb.net
palmarchive.com
I've tried (and unfortunately failed) to get CodeWarrior running in a Win98 VM.
posted by Johnny Lawn and Garden at 2:53 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
palmdb.net
palmarchive.com
I've tried (and unfortunately failed) to get CodeWarrior running in a Win98 VM.
posted by Johnny Lawn and Garden at 2:53 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I loved the heck out of my Handspring Visor Edge
I loved mine, too. I had a MIDI expansion kit that plugged into the Springboard socket, controlling a step sequencer with the stylus. I really miss the days when tech was fun and beautiful.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:53 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I loved mine, too. I had a MIDI expansion kit that plugged into the Springboard socket, controlling a step sequencer with the stylus. I really miss the days when tech was fun and beautiful.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 3:53 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
My Sony Clié is one of the few computing devices I owned that I legitimately miss. It felt like the future, carrying that around during college.
posted by Aleyn at 3:59 PM on May 1
posted by Aleyn at 3:59 PM on May 1
I'm writing this in Graffiti.
Some developers created an Android version, and
it's been my default "keyboard" for close to a decade now.
posted by cheshyre at 4:18 PM on May 1 [7 favorites]
Some developers created an Android version, and
it's been my default "keyboard" for close to a decade now.
posted by cheshyre at 4:18 PM on May 1 [7 favorites]
An early-adopter boss bought one of the Palm Pilot models to try and ended up handing it off to me. I used that thing for years.
Later I bought myself one of the Tungstens. I didn’t like the post-lawsuit second version of Graffiti (which no longer infringed on another company’s IP but which was less elegant and efficient) but I did like the virtual Graffiti area that could slide away leaving a larger display. I was commuting into New York City in those years and I would transcode movies and TV shows (mostly off of Netflix DVDs) and watch them on the train, fullscreen, in landscape orientation.
posted by Songdog at 4:34 PM on May 1
Later I bought myself one of the Tungstens. I didn’t like the post-lawsuit second version of Graffiti (which no longer infringed on another company’s IP but which was less elegant and efficient) but I did like the virtual Graffiti area that could slide away leaving a larger display. I was commuting into New York City in those years and I would transcode movies and TV shows (mostly off of Netflix DVDs) and watch them on the train, fullscreen, in landscape orientation.
posted by Songdog at 4:34 PM on May 1
I had some flavor of Palm III, I think maybe a IIIxe? Which was great. It was wonderful on the commute between Brooklyn and Manhattan, you could download bits of news from the Internet, e-books, play very simple games. I think I found a way to run old Infocom games on it. I ordered some kind of module, I think from Germany, that I had to solder in to use MMC cards in it. In fact, I think I soldered poorly the first time and had to get a new used palm off ebay. Those were the days.
The Palm I loved the most, though, was the Zire 71. It had a built-in SD card slot, and you could get a card that made it WiFi compatible. It had a color screen and a camera. It had a headphone jack and could play music files. It had a little joystick and was great at running Commodore 64 games in an emulator. It could do everything a smartphone could do except make phone calls (this in 2003 before smartphones existed). I used to take photos on it and add them to my blog. THOSE were the days.
"Gadgets aren't fun anymore" indeed.
posted by rikschell at 4:59 PM on May 1
The Palm I loved the most, though, was the Zire 71. It had a built-in SD card slot, and you could get a card that made it WiFi compatible. It had a color screen and a camera. It had a headphone jack and could play music files. It had a little joystick and was great at running Commodore 64 games in an emulator. It could do everything a smartphone could do except make phone calls (this in 2003 before smartphones existed). I used to take photos on it and add them to my blog. THOSE were the days.
"Gadgets aren't fun anymore" indeed.
posted by rikschell at 4:59 PM on May 1
If you have an Android phone, you still have a small piece of PalmOS with you.
The Binder architecture is used to communicate between different tasks. It was developed at Be and then at Palm, and when certain Palm employees migrated to Android the software came with.
posted by JoeZydeco at 5:05 PM on May 1 [6 favorites]
The Binder architecture is used to communicate between different tasks. It was developed at Be and then at Palm, and when certain Palm employees migrated to Android the software came with.
posted by JoeZydeco at 5:05 PM on May 1 [6 favorites]
Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone is a very good documentary about one of the successor Palm products.
posted by mmascolino at 5:14 PM on May 1
posted by mmascolino at 5:14 PM on May 1
I can't overstate how awesome the IrDA port was and how much I miss it. You could just beam someone your contact information, or a note, or an app, without any kind of funky configuration-- just point your devices at each other and bloop! there it is.
Welcome to the future. Well, the "future" of October 2023. No IR port required.
posted by Back At It Again At Krispy Kreme at 6:31 PM on May 1
Welcome to the future. Well, the "future" of October 2023. No IR port required.
posted by Back At It Again At Krispy Kreme at 6:31 PM on May 1
I think the statute of limitations has run out on this by now: I have a Foleo in a box somewhere. I should dig it up. Never was so great a device killed so thoroughly by idiotic marketing.
posted by phooky at 7:10 PM on May 1
posted by phooky at 7:10 PM on May 1
I had three or four Palm devices (depending on whether or not you really count the watch, which was underwhelming even when it worked); the first one was a Palm III and the last one was a Treo, which I traded in for an iPhone 3 because it stopped syncing which made it sort of useless. Palm took the handheld market away from Apple--making its PDA pocket-sized, which Newton never came close to being--and eventually Apple took it back. But I was on Team P for a solid decade there.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:21 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:21 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]
The only thing I regret about buying my first Palm IIIx was hat I got it on "sale" at Fry's for what was then (and even today) a rather eye-watering $250ish, only to have the price of the same model drop below $100 in about 2 weeks after that because newer editions were coming out.
I never bought a Palm, but my boss was on the tech-upgrade treadmill at the time, so I would get the hand-me-downs also whenever he got the newest one just as soon as they came out.
posted by mikelieman at 9:25 PM on May 1
I never bought a Palm, but my boss was on the tech-upgrade treadmill at the time, so I would get the hand-me-downs also whenever he got the newest one just as soon as they came out.
posted by mikelieman at 9:25 PM on May 1
and a boxy shape about as thick as a deck of cards to accommodate its dense internals.
Cigarette pack. That was a sweet spot (c.f. Elph camera) because that was "shirt pocket size."
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:34 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]
I had a Palm IIIc, i705, and my favorite a LifeDrive with the hard drive swapped out with a Compact Flash card. The swap made all the difference. I always disliked the early iPhones because I felt that there was just so much more that you could do with a Palm. The iPhones looked better but Palm devices were just more useful.
posted by Ignorantsavage at 1:30 AM on May 2
posted by Ignorantsavage at 1:30 AM on May 2
I had one of those translucent Handspring Visors (smoky gray). Fun little thing.
posted by grubi at 5:16 AM on May 2
posted by grubi at 5:16 AM on May 2
Treo 650, the best phone I've ever owned, and likely ever will.
posted by Hogshead at 7:03 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
posted by Hogshead at 7:03 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
Treo 650, the best phone I've ever owned, and likely ever will.
Same - a truly amazing device. Everything you need, and nothing you don't.
posted by YoungStencil at 7:29 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
Same - a truly amazing device. Everything you need, and nothing you don't.
posted by YoungStencil at 7:29 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
"I think the statute of limitations has run out on this by now: I have a Foleo in a box somewhere. I should dig it up. Never was so great a device killed so thoroughly by idiotic marketing."
phooky, I think there are a lot of us who would love to get our hands on that. Or at the very least, see an unboxing video and a run-through of the software. When it was announced, my credit card was ready and waiting... But it never came to be.
posted by Snowflake at 7:55 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
phooky, I think there are a lot of us who would love to get our hands on that. Or at the very least, see an unboxing video and a run-through of the software. When it was announced, my credit card was ready and waiting... But it never came to be.
posted by Snowflake at 7:55 AM on May 2 [2 favorites]
Between the original PalmPilots and those Timex Datalink watches, the mid-1990s seemed so futuristic.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 7:57 AM on May 2
posted by RonButNotStupid at 7:57 AM on May 2
To me, the Rolodex/Franklin REX was the future. And look, here was a company (Rolodex) trying to embrace a sea change in their product before they got killed unlike, say, Kodak.
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:11 AM on May 2
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:11 AM on May 2
I don't remember which Palm I had, but I used it intensely for years. And then when they got into smartphones I got a Palm Pre. It was fantastic, way better than the Androids and iPhones that were being released at the same time. But, alas, they got out-competed. I still remember how it felt in my hands. I miss that little thing.
posted by rednikki at 11:05 AM on May 2
posted by rednikki at 11:05 AM on May 2
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