PDAs, who had one? also my Clie i just found in my storage bin!!
Posted by seamonkey420@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 49 comments
man pda's were so awesome and the designs so wild!! this sony could flip the screen and use like a camcorder or use like a normal pda w/o a kb. bonus google nexus one and dock i thought i had sold a decade ago (but i guess i didn't yay!!).
i was a pda guy from the early 2000s. started w/a palm III then IIIc and then went Sony Palm pdas for a bit, then compaq ipaq 3600s and then windows mobile 5/6 devices like the HTC MDA. also had a sidekick 1 and 2.. yea.. i've had a lot of phones/pda/smartphones.
however this sony even though its just a pda, was prob one of my fave designs. it just feels so good in your hand and the buttons so clicky!! yup.. i miss these type of designs and gadgets.
... old geek yells at clouds...
BooBeeAttack@reddit
I had one with a belkin keyboard and used it to take notes in college instead of a laptop.
It was actually pretty useful, cause I could then upload said notes to my tower computer in the dorm.
I turned a few heads though whipping out the PDA in the early 2000s though.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
hell yea!! you were from the future. yea, i felt like a boss sitting in the hallways streaming my personal shoutcast radio station from my home pc on dsl. sure it was am quality but hey! i was using spotify before there was spotify. ;)
yea, this vid is nearly 20 years old now!! wtf!! we old! also sorry about quality and song choice, i was young and bad at this. hehe (wait i still am)
https://youtu.be/0r9C1Ah3XKc
FriedBreakfast@reddit
I had a palm tungsten. Had a few good games on there. Good times.
JJHall_ID@reddit
I started with a Palm III, then on to a Clie (I don't remember the model.) After that I tried a Handspring Treo palm-based cell phone, which I absolutely loved, but that particular model had an issue where it would have a probem where the radio hardware would occasionaly lock up, and the only way to fix it was run a utility that would keep it from going to sleep, let the battery completely run out, reset the phone, and restore the data backup. After doing that a few times I was done.
After that I went to a Compaq Windows Mobile PDA and a cable to attach it to my Nextel phone for data and used it for a while, then started down the path with HTC Win-Mobile phones and completely abandoned the "PDA as a second device" scene. I first had a Cingular 2125, then upgraded to a Cingular 8125. After that I switched to Sprint for an Android phone. I was on Android up until 3 years ago when I switched to an iPhone because my new car only supported CarPlay but not Android Auto.
To this day I sometimes miss the simplicity of Palm and the magic of the Graffiti text entry method. Windows Mobile had an emulation mode but it was never as good as Graffiti.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
haha! man.. the things we did at times to fix issues. yea, i do miss graffiti too. amazing where we have come in the last 20 years; just crazy eh? yet.. we seem to be regressing the last few years...
on a side note, i worked at a law firm that was involved w/the graffiti patent case. i even met the original intel pentium creator before a trial one time too (for a seperate chip patent case). ahh. those were some fun tech times! i almost got the pentium chip they used in the trial (eg it was one of the first models produced on the line) but totally forgot to ask about it after the trial was done.
FemaleMishap@reddit
I had the Palm Pilot, and I absolutely loved writing on it and keeping notes with it. Doing the same on a phone popup screen might be faster, but not as rewarding. I loved their script alphabet.
manthursaday@reddit
I had the first clie that looked more like a regular palm. The camera was an accessory. It fit in the memory stick slot. And was expensive so I didn't get that. Just memory sticks. For music and videos. I had used it for a couple years in college. It was my first mp3 player. It was awesome with a full color screen and video play back. I was an 18 year old guy so I had...um ...videos for personal time on it.
Electrical-Bacon-81@reddit
I still occasionally use a Sony Clie for computer diagnostics & programming on some 2003 & newer yamaha golf carts.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
no way! so.. do you know of any place that sells batteries? i really want to get a new one and fire this bad boy up. heck, i even got all the desktop software and vintage 20 yr old laptop w/windows xp ready!! hehe
Electrical-Bacon-81@reddit
I got a new one off ebay or Amazon a few years ago, I dont remember which.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
ahh, i'll do my ebay thing, thanks!! :)
18randomcharacters@reddit
I had a Handspring Visor. And I think a ... HP .. ipaq or something?
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
prob a compaq ipaq (before HP bought Compaq) and yea, those things were AMAZING too. first time i felt like i had a little computer in my hands. bonus; you had to reg hack tons of things in ppc to get it to work smoothly. ahh. windows in my pocket. ;)
18randomcharacters@reddit
yes! It was pretty cool. Windows CE?
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
not CE but the next iteration after. the ipaq had pocket pc 2000 and then pocket pc 2002.
then after that was Windows Mobile 5 and then 6. And then Windows Phone (which i actually really liked but again microsoft failed to secure developers of the popular apps at the time and again failed in the smartphone market)
Jimmy_McAltPants@reddit
I had a Treo 650. It was great for playing minesweeper
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
hehe, nice!! yea i still have one on my shelf of old tech ;)
jacobedenfield@reddit
Had a Compaq iPAQ that with a sleeve that contained an external hard drive so I could listen to a full day’s worth of mp3 music on the go when I was in college.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
oh yea!! i remember that sleeve, CompactFlash add-one sleeve. i think they had a few other ones that did other things, iirc a gps module one too? yea, i had the custom one that a person made and sold; it was color matched and looked very sleek.
KDiggity8@reddit
I had a handspring. Not sure of the model. I just remember connecting it to my computer and downloading the news for the day, and the onion.
It was cool, but I didn't use it at all for anything "productive" (I was in college at the time).
skamunism@reddit
Dell Axim X3! Used that thing alongside my dumbphone until I got a BlackBerry. Still used it at home as it was way better for media than BB.
Feralest_Baby@reddit
I had a Palm that ran for weeks on two AAA batteries. I had a folding keyboard for it and would use it to write on my lunch breaks.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
ahead of your time buddy!! nice!!
so sad that palm faded so fast. the palm pre was a good phone just hard to compete w/apple and android when you don't have any apps on the app store. same w/microsoft. they had the market in their hands several times but fumbled big time by not getting the most popular apps on their app store.
Feralest_Baby@reddit
I also had some kind of RSS app that let me download news stories at the beginning of the day so I had something to read on transit.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
nice!! yea, back then i had a tv tuner in my htpc i built and would have it setup so that any tv from the prev would convert overnight and then sync to my wm5 mda. the palm's i had couldn't really do video playback yet but once i moved to pocket pc 2000/2002 devices it was all over!
also.. i really really MISS RSS!!!! wtf???? why did every place adopt it and then slowly kill it? (i know why, ads)
Feralest_Baby@reddit
RSS was amazing. I used to use this amazing RSS service that let me aggregate my own news feed into an easy-to-scan grid on desktop. I was so much better informed back then.
klitchell@reddit
I had one that I swore was going to make me more organized. It in fact did not.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
😂 i read that in the Narrator voice too. yea, syncing wasn't quite up to par back then and i usually devolved into just putting nes and snes emulators on it. hehe
InfidelZombie@reddit
I've got a couple of PalmPilots somewhere. My dad had a Psion, which was extraordinarily rad.
jessek@reddit
I had a palm iii I got on closeout. Had fun playing with it but the shitty batter life got old.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
yea, battery life back in those days were hit or miss depending on device. i loved using my palms as tv remotes (all of them had iRDA ports). that to me felt so futuristic for some reason.
jessek@reddit
I wouldn’t have minded the shit battery life if the memory didn’t wipe if it lost power, so I had to constantly sync it to my pc and back
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
yea, my ipaq 3630 i have now does the same thing so i just leave it in my drawer. hehe. may have to setup my old 20yr old dell g3 laptop w/hotsync again just for fun ;)
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
Man dad got a whole bunch of palm pilots. It took a lot of work to make them useful, thus they collected dust lol.
CelticSith@reddit
https://i.redd.it/iaq8tr7vplvg1.gif
VinylHighway@reddit
I had one I ever overlocked it via graphite between two jumpers. Could play Nintendo games too. I had a keyboard. It was useful.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
nice!! sounds like younger you and me would be pals!! hehe
YookaBaybee24@reddit
I had the
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
oohh.. that Tungsten T was a nice model!! and the old school PalmPilot 1000!! wow!!!
VinylHighway@reddit
Haha. Wow this was over 20 years ago.
I remember now it was an HP Jornada.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
oh yea.. i remember those devices.. they were excellent and ran i think pocket pc 2002. i had an compaq ipad 3600 series back then and man. that thing felt right out of star trek back in the day. i used to tether it to my flip phone to get data service when at college and would stream my winamp from my home pc back in 2002 ;)
VinylHighway@reddit
I think I had this before I had my first mobile phone. Which was a windows ce ummm forgot the name.
elphaba00@reddit
I had some version of the Palm. I remember sending a message to someone else in a meeting, but he didn't have his on mute. The meeting came to a screeching halt. Everyone else acted like we had just been caught passing notes in class. Maybe that's where I learned to keep everything on silent.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
😂 thats awesome!!
TubeScr3ameR@reddit
Compaq Aero then an iPaq 3635. I had PCMCIA sleeve for WiFi and got told by a teacher not to take notes with the foldaway keyboard I bought just for this purpose in class.
Fair_Blood3176@reddit
I had the Clie. It was a great Bejeweled device.
seamonkey420@reddit (OP)
hell yea!! i still to this day love bejeweled and put it on as many devices i can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5jPWo3-OUI&t=356shttps://youtu.be/U5jPWo3-OUI?t=356https://youtu.be/U5jPWo3-OUI?t=356https://youtu.be/U5jPWo3-OUI?t=353
MelHamRN@reddit
I had a palm pilot I think the model was a TX. Had a sweet leather case.
Sweet-Sale-7303@reddit
I had one. Dont remember the brand but had a version of windows on it.