What was your first handheld / PDA type device

[h4x0rj3ff]

My first device with a touch screen was the palm zire 31. I bought it after my mom bought the palm zire 21. I loved that device so much! After that I bought a palm tx and that was even better

 

[cammykool]

my first touchscreen phone was an LG chocolate touch

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

my first touchscreen phone was an LG chocolate touch

I had the chocolate flip thru Alltel. Best phone I ever had!

 

[Speed Daemon]

Mine was the original Palm Pilot. I got it at a discount because tha law firm I was working for represented them. I still have it somewhere.

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

My zire fell victim to a magnetic surface plate at work (I'm a machinist) i set it on the surface plate and it had a crt off effect and it never turned on again

 

[dontpanicbobby]

The HP Jornada 548 Pocket PC.

The closes thing to a Star Trek Communicator ever produced. Except of course you couldn't make calls on it.

 

[9to5cynic]

:/ Mine was a Blackberry Curve 8330 or 8830... doesn't really matter. But damn, that was a fine device.

And I'm not sure a smartphone really counts in this category, but whatever, I'm counting it.

 

[Stuntman]

The HP Jornada 548 Pocket PC.

The closes thing to a Star Trek Communicator ever produced. Except of course you couldn't make calls on it.

I got the exact same thing. My wife gave it to me for our engagement. I gave her a diamond ring. I got her something that will last forever and she got me something that becomes obsolete in a few years. I still have it in our display case.

 

[mikedt]

A Tandy "Radio Shack" TRS-80 pocket computer.

It was magic for me back in the day....

It looks like a calculator, but you could program it in BASIC. 1500 bytes of RAM.

I also had Psion Organizers, an Amstrad PenPad which was a cheapo Apple Newton lookalike and it was horrible, a Sinclair Z88.

This thing really was dreadful.....but it was cheap, that's what Amstrad did.

 

[Hadron]

Palm V: slim, metal body, and an interface that any iPhone owner would recognise

The month's battery life is something I miss, but the volatile storage less so.

 

[Speed Daemon]

A Tandy "Radio Shack" TRS-80 pocket computer.

It was magic for me back in the day....

If you want to get really old school, then:

HP-25

A stack of 4 math registers, for unlimited RPN calculation handling, and 49 program registers. It also looks like a calculator.

 

[zuben el genub]

Handspring. Still have it, still works. Don't use it. Last device Clie UX50. Still works, will use it for Astromist at times.

 

[Bob Maxey]

Mine was the original Palm Pilot. I got it at a discount because tha law firm I was working for represented them. I still have it somewhere.

Same here. I built them. Perhaps you visited us in SLC?

Then a Windows CE device and an HP Palmtop.

 

[Speed Daemon]

Same here. I built them. Perhaps you visited us in SLC?

No, I rarely left my office on the 30th floor at 311 S. Wacker Dr. Never visited any client sites at that job.

 

[Morat]

Makes a palm pilot look like a glorified address book!

 

[dan330]

Palm V: slim, metal body, and an interface that any iPhone owner would recognise

The month's battery life is something I miss, but the volatile storage less so.

yeah.. i had the same thing.

 

[nickdalzell]

Favorite or Infamous? i'll list both:

I had the usual string of Palm Pilots, and such, even a old black and white HP handheld PC, no backlight, couldn't download anything, and ran an ancient and no-longer supported version of CE 1.x. essentially useless. IE no longer worked, and i could barely get email and telnet to do anything...

But the most notable was finding a used (but still old) Apple Newton. i no longer recall which version but it was a huge thing, i think it ran on 4 AA batteries. using the backlight would eat them alive. had Pocket Quicken and some stuff. the most funny part was the horrid handwriting recognition. i think the Simpsons once made fun of it with the 'eat up Martha' line when they tried to type 'Beat Up Martin'. it also lacked app downloads and could do very little on a 56K modem in the day i had it, it was obsolete maybe 5 years before i found the thing. it then ended up in a drawer and i think was lost long ago.

Favorite was my then-new HP Jornada. it had the latest Windows Mobile, looked a bit like XP. i had all sorts of dongles, including the very clunky GPS antenna, voice module and software. as a GPS it reminded me of my old TI 99-4A Home Computer with all the accessories wired to it. worked well though when i flew with my dad on long trips, and it did hold my MP3 collection at the time. it was close to a smartphone then, but smartphones would not exist until a couple more years. if i recall the Motorola RAZR was the latest and greatest toy then

 

[huh]

um................

 

[Stuntman]

If you want to get really old school, then:

HP-25

A stack of 4 math registers, for unlimited RPN calculation handling, and 49 program registers. It also looks like a calculator.

That's not old school. I actually learned how to use an abacus. It didn't even need batteries. Then I got a solar powered calculator.

 

[dan330]

an abacus may be considered a calculator.. but no way is it a PDA.

 

[damewolf13]

It was either a Blackberry Pearl, or a Samsung Omnia.
I can't remember which one came first.

 

[Speed Daemon]

That's not old school. I actually learned how to use an abacus. It didn't even need batteries. Then I got a solar powered calculator.

Oh yeah? Well I had clay tablets and used cuneiform script. Beat that!

I'm with dan330. I've owned an abacus or two, and slide rules too. They're too big to be palmtop devices. Plus, the games for them kinda suck.

 

[IndecisiveElle]

A Cybiko Extreme! haha. It was designed mostly for teenagers - had some amazingly cool features for the time, like messaging between devices, but I never knew anyone that had one so it was mostly useless and rarely used.
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My first smart phone was a Palm Treo 650 then the awful early windows phone which I hated so much I went back to a regular phone until the OGD was released.

 

[Dngrsone]

Sony Cli

 

[Stuntman]

an abacus may be considered a calculator.. but no way is it a PDA.

I carry around a paper note pad and a pen as a PAA.