Your First Handheld?

[cutterjohn]

(05-17-2014 03:22 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I got a second-hand Palm m500 a few years back, and that one comes pretty close to the simple utility of the old models, but with lots of RAM and an SD slot. I mostly used it for running Pocket Quicken and whatnot.

Hah! Thanks for reminding me about the m500s. I went to check on screen replacements, which were kind of pricey, so checked m500s and there seem to be a ton of them NIB still kicking around, so $20 and an m500 now.

I added a Handspring Prizm and a Sony Clie to my collection as well when they came, but color screens were just a no go for me. Unreadable in sunlight. Also picked up a Tungsten a few years ago just to have an ARM based Palm & 5.x OS.

I kind of got on a kick on these things for a while and also had the origanl Compaq iPaq(batt kept dying on it though, but it was 1st batch and had a whopping 64MB of flash instead of the 32MB specced had linux running on it).

VTECH Helio, alot like the Palms but the OS wasn't nearly as good but they eventually *gasp* OSSed it when they EOLed the product. (MIPS SoC)

...and lastly an Agenda VR3, the original one w/less RAM/flash. Another MIPS SoC & linux based OS.

...and almost forgot a Casio Cassiopeia wince(and I do, god wince is awful), which reminds me I had a v1 or v2 wince w/a keyboard too, but I forget the make.

Franklin eBookman(16MB/backlit one) weird cross between an ebook reader(1st I bought that was marketed as that) w/PIM functions. (Really it was more like a PDA w/litreader from M$.)

...and the Newton MessagePage 2100 that I picked up in the early 2000s w/a bunch of extras, used that for a while, but it was really just too big.

Then a REB-1100 (B&W LCD one w/MMC cards?) but the it died and I ended back to between the iiix & ebookman as an ereader until I moved to eink.

Also up to misc. tablets, but really only use them occasionally and then only the Nexus 7(2013). They aren't going to replace my notebooks, and my nexus 4 then 5 do everything else that they can do and I always have that w/me. (I REALLY need to STOP buying tablets...)