General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone

Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by mattkevan on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:06PM (#16898887)

I bought a Datarover from eBay on a whim a few years ago.

The device itself is a brick but Magic Cap is a delight: well designed, intuitive and fun in a way modern systems are not.

If the backlight hadn’t fizzled out I’d be using it regularly as an over-engineered landline.

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by soapdog on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:48PM (#16899103)

I also did that some years ago. I used to be a heavy newton user and then, later in early 2000, I decided to check out some other old PDAs, so I purchased a data rover and some others. Magic Cap is a very good surprise. I wish we had more stuff like that these days instead of the boring stuff we do have now.

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by maxxxxx on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:53PM (#16899403)

I agree. Using the Newton was fun in a way the modern devices simply aren't. The same happened with desktop operating systems. The original Mac was more fun than what we have now.

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