The optimal standalone PDA? Quick facts Introduction When Palm introduced the PalmPilot in 1997, the company was by no means one of the pioneers. Far from it. Companies such as Psion, Atari, Amstrad and AST, to name just a few, had already been making handheld computers for many years. Even so, Palm managed to go … Read more
A hint of things to come Quick facts Introduction Sony, one of the largest companies in the consumer electronics industry, naturally wanted a share of the rapidly growing PDA market. By the late 1990s the market had expanded significantly, not least thanks to Palm and its highly successful PalmOS-powered devices. Sony had experimented with handheld … Read more
Thinner, smaller and more stylish than the Palm III — and including a built-in Li-ion battery. Quick facts Overview Introduced in 1999 at a launch price of USD 500, the Palm V was the first in a new line of Palm PDAs to feature a sleek aluminium case. Compared to the plastic-bodied Palm III, it … Read more
Minor improvements to the models introduced at launch Quick facts Overview Introduced in March 1997 as a direct replacement for the Pilot 5000 model released just ten months earlier, the PalmPilot Professional offered a handful of incremental improvements. These included 1 MB of RAM instead of 512 KB, as well as a built-in backlight for … Read more
Want a colour screen? Be prepared to sacrifice readability in daylight Quick facts Overview Released in 2002, the Palm m515 represents one of the last models in Palm’s regular line of PDAs before the company’s focus increasingly shifted towards connectivity and convergence. Featuring a 33 MHz Motorola DragonBall processor and 16 MB of RAM, the … Read more
Thin, sleek, elegant — and a commercial success Quick facts Overview The Palm Vx represents the peak of Palm’s traditional, pre-expansion-card PDA design. Introduced in late 1999, it was an evolutionary update to the Palm V rather than a radical redesign, refining a form factor that had already proven extremely popular. Compared to its predecessor, … Read more
PalmPilot lookalike with expandability via Springboards Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new The Handspring Visor is the first expandable handheld computer. It comes with 2MB of RAM, so you have more than enough to store all your data. With your Visor handheld, you will no longer have trouble getting to meetings and … Read more