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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective (palm palmos palmpilot) (arstechnica.com | ia)
8 points by amoroso 404 days ago | 3 comments
  • zxm 401 days ago
    if someone sold a new palmos device that ran on aa or aaa batteries i would buy one in a heartbeat. for all it's limitations it did certain tasks very well. memopad, calendar and contacts. writing in graffiti 1 was fine for entering small amounts of data and local sync to a desktop with the cradle worked perfectly to sync data between multiple desktops.
    • bmonkey325 401 days ago
      Yes! I think it might have to have wifi like iPod touch. As I don’t think I want to go back to a Batman digital utility belt of old - but ditching phone so I’m only on when I want to be … that’s a device worth purchasing
      • zxm 401 days ago
        i've reached a point where i don't want it to be a phone. they just turned off 3g in my country so my nokia 3310 from 2017 loses a lot of functionality when i lose it's browser with an rss reader that was so very handy.

        wifi and bt to link to your network or phone to access data would be excellent. a shame there'd be no avantgo for mobile offline web which i absolutely loved on palmos. sync before you leave the house and i'd have news downloaded for the day to keep the boredom away.

        with just those 2 protocol it could link to devices and services for many years without been dependent on special hardware to talk to the phone networks.

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