Before the iPhone and the Blackberry, there was this.

"RotaryLover" (rotarylover) 07/25/2014 at 01:24 • Filed to: None

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Who remembers Palm? What a shame that they are gone...

Cherry_man1 > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:26

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I still have my dads old one =P works too!

RotaryLover > Cherry_man1 07/25/2014 at 01:31

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It was as robust as a Nokia back then! I miss those days. Phones now might be beautiful...but god they are fragile.

Cherry_man1 > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:32

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Agreed

PS9 > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:32

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I remember HPs shittass attempt to turn themselves in to Apple with Palm. It would have worked too, if only idiots hadn't been behind the planning an execution.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:36

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My mom has a SONY Clie' laying around that has Palm-licensed tech. Does that count?

RotaryLover > PS9 07/25/2014 at 01:36

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iPAQ?

RotaryLover > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/25/2014 at 01:37

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LOL I forgot about it! Damn...What a throwback.

promoted by the color red > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:50

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I actually used a Handspring Visor for about a year (2010-2011) that I paid $2.50 for. Threw in some AAAs and got it to sync with my Windows 7 PC.

I didn't have a smartphone at the time so I used it as a calendar and note-taking app. Graffiti took some adjusting to but I figured it out pretty well, except that one time I accidentally wrote "rate" and the device interpreted it as "rape"...in front of a prospective employer.

promoted by the color red > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 01:52

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I disagree. I dropped my Visor face-first and the LCD cracked while my Galaxy S III has taken multiple hits to its face without complaint.

RotaryLover > promoted by the color red 07/25/2014 at 01:59

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Anything other than Apple are another story. I had a Samsung Focus and like you, it never cracked despite the dropping on the floor abuse until the day it got frozen in my pocket by the winter and the screen cracked as soon as I dropped it...

sebdel > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 03:44

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I had a Sony clie with a 16mb sony memory stick, then a Palm TX. the tx was awesome, wifi, mp3 and NES emulator for contra.

Bad Idea Hat > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 06:38

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I was talking to a very young coworker about this yesterday. Told him how we had smartphones back in the day, but they didn't make calls, have wifi, have any sort of reasonable storage, and you usually needed a cable to sync them, and syncing was fraught with disaster at times.

I don't miss those days.

Mattbob > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 08:23

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aww yeah, I had one of the first color ones when they came out. That thing was awesome. Then I went to a pocket PC for a few years. Good stuff.

Mattbob > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 08:25

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I disagree. My Palm pilot died from a small drop. My Razr HD has taken a TON of LARGE drops and it still works great. Like it has fallen of the top of my car while driving (I'm an idiot and forget it's there after I finish biking). It is still fine.

RotaryLover > Mattbob 07/25/2014 at 13:43

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Seriously thought they were solid...damn.

Mattbob > RotaryLover 07/25/2014 at 13:50

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I think the first few generations were. I got it on their way down when they started to cheapen them to sell to more people.

RotaryLover > Mattbob 07/25/2014 at 16:33

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Always happening to major companies...