Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi...
by j45 on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:39AM
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This reminds me of my Palm Pilot Pro from ~97. It came with a modem add-on for dialup internet. It was a smartphone, otherwise.
Handspring, an offshoot by Palm's creators created the first cellular addon (Springboard) for PalmOS shortly after. Worked OK.
PalmOS, on a Treo 90 (color touch screen in 2002), with Datebk6 remains the most productive device I've ever used by a wide margin. Touchscreen, and keyboard in one form factor cut down on grafitti use.
The best part? One shortcut key (fn+calendar) took the device from power off right into a cursor in to add a task. When horsepower didn't exist, productivity made up for in oodles. It had a usable keyboard, well before blackberry showed up. Nothing today touches this.
The Palm Treo 600 came along in 2003 to me were the first real, usable smartphones. No app store, but apps could be synced from the computer. It combined a physical keyboard with a touchscreen on a smartphone to boot.
Handspring, an offshoot by Palm's creators created the first cellular addon (Springboard) for PalmOS shortly after. Worked OK.
PalmOS, on a Treo 90 (color touch screen in 2002), with Datebk6 remains the most productive device I've ever used by a wide margin. Touchscreen, and keyboard in one form factor cut down on grafitti use.
The best part? One shortcut key (fn+calendar) took the device from power off right into a cursor in to add a task. When horsepower didn't exist, productivity made up for in oodles. It had a usable keyboard, well before blackberry showed up. Nothing today touches this.
The Palm Treo 600 came along in 2003 to me were the first real, usable smartphones. No app store, but apps could be synced from the computer. It combined a physical keyboard with a touchscreen on a smartphone to boot.