Comments on: Palm Featured on Modern Marvels TV Show

Did you get a tingle down your leg?

The last known classic PDA user.

To each his own. I still prefer my phone separate from my PDA functional device. It sound like how you actually use your device is the bigger determination of if you need two devices or not. For you, talking and texting your girl/boy friend might be the most you use your device for. I do a lot of ebook reading, password storage, text document referral, video podcasts, database, and many quick hand written sticky notes (much quicker then typing out). Quite often I'm doing the writing and text/database referral while talking to someone on the phone. It's also important that I don't have a dead phone battery. So for me two devices serves me MUCH better then a single device can.

The last known classic PDA user.

the case for NON-Convergence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MP3 player lights rescuers' way to missing skiers
1 hr 56 mins ago

SAVOGNIN, Switzerland – Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.

The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late Friday but the skiers' phone battery went dead before they could be reached.

Rega spokesman Gery Baumann says the two men were eventually found after midnight in steep, wooded terrain by a helicopter crew that spotted the light from their digital music player.

Baumann said Saturday that the two 22-year-olds suffered only mild hypothermia despite enduring temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius).

The incident happened near the town of Savognin in southeastern Switzerland.

the mere thought of fumbling with a pda, looking up a phone number, and then having to re-type the phone number into the phone and then fumble again with both devices is ludicrous in the year 2008/2009.

that's what ear buds are for, silly.

Speakerphone.

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

I prefer specialized devices simply because I don't use a cell phone that often. I use a cell phone so rarely that any sort of calling plan would be wasted on me, so I go with a prepaid one. At the risk of sounding cheap, I don't see the point of paying a monthly service plan that I'm not going to get my money's worth from it.

Also, I just really hate Treo keyboards.

Palm Vx > m505 > T5

I believe it was TRG/Handera that was working on and brought out the first PalmOS device with an external card. Handspring was a little later, and insisted on those silly proprietary modules instead of an industry standard CF or SD format.

When Handspring came out with the precurser to the Treo - the cell phone module that only worked when it was plugged into the only slot - it was finally obvious to them soon after that they also had to go with industry standard flash cards and build the hardware into the mothership. By then it was too late, and they got ate up by Palm....

i didn't see this as a blatant shill. it was simply a documentary segment on the growth and evolution of PDAs to smartphones. love 'em or hate 'em, Palm as much as anybody is part of that history. not sure they gave a "kickback" either. companies do this shit all the time.