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Handhelds from the past

Apple Newton. The iPhone's inspiration no doubt.

Here's the British equivalent of the Newton...

The Amstrad PenPad.
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Released about the same time, was much cheaper *. However it was really quite dreadful and clunky, even for 1993.

* Cheapo is what Amstrad did. Sir Alan Sugar gave the UK its first cheap PC, the PC1512

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Amstrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've got and use one of these, A Fujitsu UH900 UMPC, I bought in Hong Kong a couple of years ago....
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Fujitsu Unveils Smallest Multi-Touch Handheld PC with LifeBook UH900 : Fujitsu Thailand
 
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I've got an old iPAQ, Bluetooth, no WiFi or SIM card. It takes SD cards up o 2GB, and makes a good MP3 player.It also has a cool universal remote app installed, so it's a music player and remote for TV/Tivo/DVD/Stereo/WiFi radio and other stuff.

Had one of those for the longest time lol. Eventually got worn out and ended up losing it. Had a Garmin iQUE 3600 (I think was the number) also, powered by Palm that I used to use for Geocaching. Man, how times have changed.
 
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