The Unifier Quick facts Overview Siemens IC35 – The Unifier Introduction In the year 2000, Siemens introduced a small PDA with a physical keyboard called the IC35. It was positioned as a companion device to a Siemens mobile phone. At the time, Siemens was one of the three major European manufacturers of mobile network equipment, … Read more
The Organizer That Wanted to Grow Up and Become a PDA Quick facts Overview Sharp, long recognized for its expertise in low-power electronics and LCD displays, was one of the world’s major manufacturers of calculators and so-called “data banks” or organizers throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As such, the company already possessed most of the … Read more
The Ultimate Companion for your Palm OS Handheld Quick facts Overview At a time when a clear market leader had emerged — Palm, with its range of shirt-pocketable PalmPilots — several companies sought to enter the PDA space by doing something different rather than competing head-on. One such company was Fossil, primarily known as a … Read more
The Personal Manager on Your Wrist Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new Join The Timex and Microsoft Revolution With the Timex Data Link watch and Microsoft Windows, you can transfer information from a PC to your wrist Overview When the Timex Datalink came out, it represented a completely new type of device, … Read more
The user-friendly PDA. The pen-based personal organiser that recognises your hand-writing Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new Goodbye ring-binders, hello to the personal organizer for the next century! The Amstrad PenPad. Its sophisticated handwriting recognition facility means it “learns” to read your handwriting, so there’s no fiddly keyboard, you just “write” on … Read more
When improvements does not lead to a better product Quick facts Overview Rex 6000 was the last in a series of credit-card sized PDAs from Franklin, and later Xircom. It addressed one of the perceived weaknesses with the previous models, namely the inability (REX-3) or difficulty (REX-5) of entering data into the unit while on-the-go. … Read more
Credit card sized PDA with Quicklists input Quick facts Overview The Rex Pro or REX-5 or Rex 5000 was the successor to the Rolodex Rex (or REX-3). It retains the same size and screen, but adds the very important feature of being able to edit things on-the-go. It still has only 6 buttons (one more … Read more
A PDA small enough to carry in your wallet! Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new Use your desktop or laptop to enter and manage organizer data, synchronize it with REX and then view it anytime, anywhere! REX comes with REX TrueSync Information Manager, a full-featured organizer software, or you can import data … Read more