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April 18, 2004
What a PDA collection...
Sitting here playing with my new Treo 600 made me realize what a complete PDA geek I've been over the years. I've made it a point to keep most of the PDAs I've had as I outgrew each one, thinking some day it'd make an interesting collection. At least they don't take up much space, and as far as I know they all still work. =)
PalmPilot 5000 (512k RAM, 1996)
PalmPilot Professional (1MB RAM, PalmOS 2.0, 1997)
Palm III (2MB RAM, dropped the "Pilot" name after a lawsuit by the Pilot Pen corp, OS 2.0, 1999)
Palm Vx (There was no Palm IV strangely enough... the Vx was an upgraded version of the Palm V slim PDA with the metal body, 2001)
Palm VII (Funky PDA a little thicker than the Palm III and about an inch longer, with a built in wireless data modem which required special Palm VII apps to use the data services. A flop in the long run, but was pretty cool for its time, 2001)
Palm IIIc (was my wife's... color version of the Palm III)
I also had an Apple Newton review unit for a year or so when those were hot. I also have a couple of Psion Series 5 units which are very cool with a decent keyboard and lots of accessories that go with em. I reviewed the very first Blackberry model, that was a pager-sized device but had all of the cool email features that made the newer PDA-sized Blackberrys such a huge hit a few years ago. The strangest device I have tho is a weird NEC MobilePro 700 which is about 1/3 the size of a small laptop, that never really worked well but had a decent keyboard for taking notes in meetings and such.
Up to this point my favorite device has been the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA. It's a fully blown Linux machine that pretends to be a PDA. Great for doing systems admin work via SSH. The hidden thumb keyboard is the best I've used, and it has both CF and SD slots for adding memory and accessories. Just a bit too large to carry around all the time though. With the wifi CF card it's great for doing wireless network surveys.
Ugh what a collection. Or pile of junk, not sure which at this point. Hopefully the Treo 600 will finally be the best of PDA functionality, wireless Internet, small form factor, and good cell phone abilities.
Posted by Kevin Railsback at April 18, 2004 12:11 AM
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