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
Personal Organizer marking the end of the PDA era Quick facts Sales pitch from when it was new Designed with Business in mindThere is much to appreciate about the sophisticated design of the iPAQ 200 Series. the powerful processor, large touchscreen display, SDIO and CF expansion, and the convenience of headphone, microphone, and USB connections … 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
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
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