27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful

Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by stavros on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:11AM (#36165336)

Except the lighter nowadays is a flamethrower. You can get a lighter that needs gas every month, or a flamethrower that needs gas every two minutes, but complaining that the flamethrower needs much more gas than the lighter is silly.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by rebolek on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:59AM (#36166036)

The problem is there are only flamethrowers now and no lighters.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by stavros on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:05AM (#36166126)

I'm fairly sure you can still boy dumb phones that last a week+ though.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by manicennui on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:57AM (#36166828)

I think the argument is that we mostly want to accomplish the same sorts of things, but now we have to use a flamethrower.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by stavros on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#36166849)

But we don't, even the fact that we browse the Web and watch videos would have been impossible on a Nokia 3210.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by manicennui on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:02PM (#36168616)

We have been doing all of this since the 90s at least on desktop computers. Smartphones today are far more powerful than desktop computers from that era.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by ztrww on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:57AM (#36185651)

> doing all of this since the 90s at least on desktop computers

it wasn’t a very nice experience. Why would I want to watch anything in 240p win stead of 4k? Same for web, despite the bloat UX on most websites is miles ahead of what was common back in ~2000

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