It is a long time. And it passes by faster than you would think kiddo. I had one of these 25 years ago. Maybe in 2049 you'll enjoy watching someone mock your technology too.
@@chrisstrayer4323 yeah I I keep hearing the “knives and bearskins” line from Star Trek. Yes technology has improved since then but this isn’t drastically different in function than a what we’d use our phones for. The narration makes it sound like it’s something from the Flintstones -a stone tablet and chisel powered by a put upon prehistoric bird.
Ur talking about custom ROMs buddy and for laptops uve the option to install Linux instead of that Microsoft bloatware(or buy one with Linux preinstalled for easier setup)
PDA meant public displays of affection until these became popular, at which point they became PDA’s. And while the product category may be called PDA, it really doesn’t matter. It’s not in reference to a brand. It’s like how a calculator is a calculator no matter the brand or style. Or how all pagers were beepers. So sorry, but I have to seriously beg to differ with the video poster up there @johnzoid74. Maybe he wasn’t alive back then? But yeah, they were ALL just PDA’s until the Palm Pilots and Blackberries eventually took over.
old battery powered devices are often fried. batteries can expire, especially in 25 year old tech. i agree that older materials are more resistant tho lol
@@ptanker9236 oh it was definitely a stylus industry wide. Palm, compaq and hp both made one called the pocket pc and included a stylus, other brands as well. They were great at the time!
I met my wife because of one of these. I got it to track college assignments in 2001 and then filled it with the addresses and phone numbers of every casual acquaintance I could just to amuse myself. She was a friend of a friend of someone I met one time but when I found myself in her city with nothing to do I searched my address book and called her up.
That's incredible! Not only because you found a use for one of these devices.. but that it was actually functional and worked! After I saw this video, I went back in my memory and tried to remember as many PDA's as I could. I was astonished to remember that I've had to least 5 PDA's.. I couldn't believe it. I kept buying them, likely because I'm a gadget nerd.. and I don't think it ever once helped my get organised at all.
@@Terszel I had to have a pager for work, even though I had a cell phone. It was one of those little ones that would send a message. Barely used it, lol
A very nice feature was the easy synchronization with your PC, you simply put them in the docking station, pressed the sync button and your calendar, notes, contacts and I believe even mails were synchronized with the PC. I had a Palm V back then, very stylish device, must still be around somewhere. Probably with a dead battery 😀
There were also dialup modems (and cellular modems) available for these, which I believe you could use to send and receive emails if your service provider supported it.
@@FahimHoq would have been better as a mention, it was only the last 20 seconds that showed the device on and he didn't even get past the setup. i know its a short so of course you can't review the entire device but this had the feel of your average filler type content
@@FahimHoq If you're not aware replaceable AAA batteries were the norm 25 years ago, you most likely don't have the mental capability to be on the internet at all.
PDAs, the pre smartphone. Lots of professional adults had them for calenders and stuff. They were popular. I remember when my neighbors mom or dad would get a new one they would give us the old one and we would get so excited 😂
I still have a Palm IIIx on my bookshelf and carried one years ago. I think of what Mr Mobile says I'm his "When Phones Were Fun" videos - it's nice nostalgia but I wouldn't want to go back to then
I used to use these on the daily in 2008. I eventually upgraded to one that had a color screen and it was amazing. The major break for through was whenever I got one that had Wi-Fi in 2010. It was absolutely devastating the day I was coming down the stairs and dropped it cracking the screen. Long live my long lost HP Palm pilot.
I remember how easy it was to beam those games from one to another, and I worked at a computer company so there was a tech guy that always had access to all the games and would come by and just send you it wirelessly from his Palm pilot to yours, obviously all the classics like asteroid space Invaders etc But there were quite a few very interesting and fun little games! He was the first one I knew to have a Palm pilot with both a color screen and a Sim Port so you he could make calls on it, actually a smartphone before the iPhone!
Wow, nice job. I tried putting Minecraft on my raspberry pie. I failed miserably putting games on that thing seems even harder there is a Minecraft raspberry pie edition and yet I still failed miserably seems a lot harder on that thing so good job.
I am forty two years old... I supported these in my first call center job back in 2001. Yes, twenty five years is a long time in technology... but thank you for making me feel old... lol
These things were awesome back in the day! I had a Handspring Visor Neo (The knockoff Palm Pilot haha) that had a bigger screen and still ran Palm OS. I could connect my home-brew PC to the internet via dialup and sync the Palm Pilot via it's docking cradle before going to bed, then read the day's news in bed to fall asleep... And play Tetris lol. It was so ahead of its time!
@@kdupuis77 мне 39. И эти дети никогда не поймут, какими действительно крутыми были те гаджеты. И что нам приходилось делать, чтобы они работали как нам нужно. Мы с коллегами по исследованию пещер до сих пор используем старый HP iPAQ для картографии - его резистивный сенсор точный и позволяет аккуратно дорисовывать профиль хода пещеры по точкам, отмеченным лазерным дальномером.
It's because it is a relic. It's entire existence taken over by smartphones. Kids today would have no idea what this is even supposed to be, and would ask you why you didn't just use a phone.
I used to work at that company and at the building where these things were made. Considering the rest of the technology at the time these things were magical.
I had one of these (and several others..) They were great for the time. The handwriting recognition was surprisingly accurate and fast. Fun tip, the stylus (not S-pen) has a tool inside to hit the reset switch on the end.
I had one of these in college circa 2004-ish. It was a lifesaver! I had a little IR keyboard that connected to the Palm Pilot. I typed ALL of my notes on it. It had a copy of Word on it. It was kind of like a mini PC - even had a menu to access all the apps, a colour screen, etc. It was much more compact and cheaper than a laptop. And the battery lasted for days!
@@rookie3279 yea, similar to Bluetooth but infrared required line-of-sight. Like old TV remotes had to be pointed *at* the TV, the keyboard had to be lined up with my Palm.
@@vap0rtranz waah i seee. U takin notes on it just like ipad nowadays. Being able to experience it back then definitely really cool n awesome! Was it common to have it back then ? Or just certain ppl or rich ppl have it?
Really? Faster than just typing on modern touch screens? I have my doubts, but what do I know. Never had a PDA, but I remember eyeballing them around 2003 to 2005. They were so cool back then!
I’ve even incorporated some Graffiti strokes into my handwriting. Back in the day where I live, I was one the happy early adopters of a PDA (Palm Pilot). Had my photo stamped on a newspaper holding it.
The problem is always the battery 😢… it’s not safe to keep an unused electronic device with the battery on for that long, but you can’t (easily) remove an iPhone battery. This thing didn’t have that problem. I miss things using AA or AAA batteries
If I remember right,the price of some of these pda was well over $200.00. Then when ones came later could connect to internet,makes calls,was well over $300-600.
There is a calculator, but it also has contact list/addressbook, calendar, and note taking applications. And you could "beam" data from one device to another using InfraRed (IR).
yes, I absolutely had one of these and depended on it for email and calendar while I was on the go around NYC. It was the most amazing piece of technology at the time. I was using this and then graduated to the next version that had a color screen in 2004 I was still using it in 2006. then got an iphone
Mine was a lifesaver. Used the whole time to organize my life (todo & calendar), to read e-books - dozens of them. But I could have bought just for being cool tech too
Omg! Not the palm pilot! I definitely had one! Had that and with my little see through turquoise pager with my pager clip and chain… I thought I was big ballin! 😂 damn I miss the 90s so much!!!
You NEED a stylus as the screen is not a touch screen as you understand, and finger taps don't really work. You need a pointy thing like a fingernail, or stylus, and a hard press. It was a resistive touch screen, not a capacitive type.
my dad had a palmtop back in the day and peopole laughed at him cause it had a touch screen and was big, now they use even bigger phones and laughtfrom peopole that have phones with keyboards
I had that exact model. I had the attachment that allowed it to connect wirelessly to the internet. I remember sitting at an outdoor cafe here in silicon valley and trading stocks - AT THE CAFE! I thought I was in the future and loved every minute of it :)
Could do a lot with those back in the day. Great for notes, pwd’s contact info, reading. Offline travel /work necessity when you were not on a computer.
Kinda amazing how things have progressed. I remember when that was the cutting edge of technology! Everyone had something like that, and a pocket pager. I remember the first cell phone I saw. I knew a guy who ran his own company, and he took it with him everywhere. It was the size of a shoebox and had a standard handset on top and a three foot antenna! I think it weighed about 10 to 15 pounds. Service was sketchy and not cheap either. Progress? Maybe...
My dad gave me his Palm III when he upgraded to a newer model. I used to play missile command on it. It rocked! Though I dont think I had much use for the organizational features at six years old, I got pretty good at that bizarro alphabet "palm graffiti" for little notes.
I had the Palm V (and afterwards Palm Treo that already integrated a mobile phone). Colleagues made fun of me using NO paper calendar but Palm, synchronized with Outlook.
Palm Treo, the Granddaddy of Smartphones. I’ve had both the Palm and Windows Mobile versions of these. I consider these over BlackBerry as the Grandfather of Smartphones, being the Palm PDAs were around before BlackBerrys were. I’m sure some will disagree.
Had one of those back in 2000, unfortunately stolen in 2002. The big difference to our devices nowadays is how much this old tech can endure without internal battery. Today if you need to change the batteries you might as well change the whole device for a new one.
I still love palm pilots, I had one of the very first color lcds, then my step brother got a Sony, which had a digital camera on the back, man we really need to bring these things back, as phones have primarily become a means of entertainment, it’s hard for me to get my (everything a palm pilot was made for) straight on the same device I use for everything else
I had one and is was fantastic! You could loud the maps on it to have a navigation system in your car. Gives me good vibes. Very sad that Palm missed the opportunity to improve against mobile phones.
Serial port to OBD2 connector, to view and record parameters via the car. Then a program you would download your data to. Helped to adjust the piggyback ECU, four manual knobs, 0-5, in a box under the hood to adjust WOT, MAF, PSI, and A/F ratio. 1997 AWD TSi Talon, 2G DSM. Miss Her..
25 years is a long time. for those of you saying it’s not, you’re just older than you realize I guess.
25 years in technology is even longer.
A 25 year old person is OLD!!
It is a long time. And it passes by faster than you would think kiddo. I had one of these 25 years ago. Maybe in 2049 you'll enjoy watching someone mock your technology too.
@@chrisstrayer4323 yeah I I keep hearing the “knives and bearskins” line from Star Trek. Yes technology has improved since then but this isn’t drastically different in function than a what we’d use our phones for. The narration makes it sound like it’s something from the Flintstones -a stone tablet and chisel powered by a put upon prehistoric bird.
I founf a working one of these at the thrift with the think pad so cool!
I have old iPad company Pocket PC. would you like to buy
no internet connection, no spyware, no bloatware, fairly durable. No accounts, no need for a phone number.What more do you need?
to play doom on it
Ur talking about custom ROMs buddy and for laptops uve the option to install Linux instead of that Microsoft bloatware(or buy one with Linux preinstalled for easier setup)
@@Ls99-u2sare you having a stroke
@@Ls99-u2s i already run Linux (Fedora) and a degoogled ROM on my phone (LineageOS) :)
It was time of personal freedom for sure. I was 18 at that time and I can tell you 90’ was a bonkers time.
Hearing someone say Personal Digital Assistant instead of PDA is like saying Charles Entertainment Cheese instead of Chuck E Cheese 💀
but not really. because the product category is PDA.
Or like saying “Withered Golden Freddy Fazbear” instead of W.G.Freddy 💀
@@minecraftslegacycommunity486bro what the fuck are you talking about you are 12.
probably the acronym PDA has another meaning so gotta specify
PDA meant public displays of affection until these became popular, at which point they became PDA’s. And while the product category may be called PDA, it really doesn’t matter. It’s not in reference to a brand. It’s like how a calculator is a calculator no matter the brand or style. Or how all pagers were beepers. So sorry, but I have to seriously beg to differ with the video poster up there @johnzoid74. Maybe he wasn’t alive back then?
But yeah, they were ALL just PDA’s until the Palm Pilots and Blackberries eventually took over.
> buys electronic planner from 1999
> open setup
> THE DATE IS 1999
Yes
Shocking!
No way
You forgot to add:
> Surprised Pikachu face.
Did he think it would reset itself to the current year?
Never doubt old electronics ability to turn on if they are clearly in good shape. They aren't the throw away trash we have now.
old battery powered devices are often fried. batteries can expire, especially in 25 year old tech. i agree that older materials are more resistant tho lol
@@Kirkenheimer15my 2004 pc still works as usual lol, after like daily use in the office since a loong time ago
@@blackdethyl cool. what do you use it for?
@@Kirkenheimer15 dirt collecting
I use to sell these at “Circuit City” back in 1999.. I worked in the Computer department. 😂
We’re they hot sellers?
wait so that means you’re an old person now… ewww stick to Readers Digest
@@Makiaveli01Yes!
-Will this be the reason for the y2k collapse?.. -No!
when he said S pen i wanted to cry.
IT'S A STYLUS.
These you Gen z guys 🤣. I worked in IT probably while he was in diapers we had these everywhere in corporate America lol.
@@ptanker9236 oh it was definitely a stylus industry wide. Palm, compaq and hp both made one called the pocket pc and included a stylus, other brands as well. They were great at the time!
an S pen is short for stylus pen...
Maybe stylus is one of those words that are frowned upon nowadays and thus you gotta refer to it as S-pen?
'Who wants to use a stylus' your famous last words....!
Electronics used to live 25 years
I don't think so
While they still do, the hardwre is outdated in 3 years, making them next to useless
Theyll last 25,000 years in the landfill
@@da8874 the writing recognition rivals any current hardware
@@da8874hardware that’s 3 years old is… useless?
In what world do you live in?
*Who wants to use 25yr old electronics,,,,, NOBODY* 😂😂😂😂😂
I met my wife because of one of these. I got it to track college assignments in 2001 and then filled it with the addresses and phone numbers of every casual acquaintance I could just to amuse myself. She was a friend of a friend of someone I met one time but when I found myself in her city with nothing to do I searched my address book and called her up.
That's so sweet
So sweet in 2001. Nowadays you would be charged with "stalking". How the times have changed ☹️
@@olmostgudinaf8100?? Is there something personal you need to tell us?
That's incredible!
Not only because you found a use for one of these devices.. but that it was actually functional and worked!
After I saw this video, I went back in my memory and tried to remember as many PDA's as I could. I was astonished to remember that I've had to least 5 PDA's.. I couldn't believe it.
I kept buying them, likely because I'm a gadget nerd.. and I don't think it ever once helped my get organised at all.
@@olmostgudinaf8100Uhm.. not really. If you really believe that go outside and meet real people please instead of reading through the internet
“This is an electronic daily planner from the year, 1999”
“WOW THE DATE SAYS 1999 OMG😱😱😱”
That first sound effect was petty 😂😂😂
I remember when basically every professional had a Palm Pilot
Next was Blackberries
and a pager!
@@bennri I remember that. I had an ex whose BlackBerry would update in the middle of the night.
@@Terszel
I had to have a pager for work, even though I had a cell phone. It was one of those little ones that would send a message. Barely used it, lol
@@j.p.6932😂
This thing is smarter than rabbit r1
Probably does more than it too.
@@Aaron6791aeIt does
😆 🤣 😂
Of course a whole device is smarter than one Android app
@@kamewantor4594 Thanks. I was wondering what that rabbit thingy was.
Awesome! I remember my dad having this when I was eleven or twelve years old!
Omg same. I forgot my dad had one of those until this video. If I remember correctly, it also had a game with a ship and squids(?)
These "antiques" were more reliable than today's iPhones
A very nice feature was the easy synchronization with your PC, you simply put them in the docking station, pressed the sync button and your calendar, notes, contacts and I believe even mails were synchronized with the PC. I had a Palm V back then, very stylish device, must still be around somewhere. Probably with a dead battery 😀
And nowadays it requires 10 different subscription services, accounts, social networks and spyware
@@Gameplayer55055no it doesn't i have 0 subscriptions
I used to have a Windows Pocket PC back in the day. ActivsSync was a nightmare to use😂
There were also dialup modems (and cellular modems) available for these, which I believe you could use to send and receive emails if your service provider supported it.
@@lilalj07AFAIK sync'ing was a lot more reliable on Palm devices.
It is called a Palm Pilot.
I owned the zire 21, 71, 72, TX, and LifeDrive.
I loved my zire 71. I even installed Linux on it. I always wanted the lifedrive, but I also had a clie, and a Cassiopeia 125
How old are you back in 1999?
@@mizan9232 5. I didn’t buy new, I got one off of eBay around 2004
@@mizan9232 I also owned the Palm Zire 72s and a Treo. I was 14 in 1999.
i still have working P900 ...world's 1st smartphone ... though some call P800 1st but P900 is 1st
Dude wastes half the video, could have started with batteries in it.
Typical youtube dude
he probably wanted to show that devices back in the day had replaceable batteries capabilities.
@@FahimHoq would have been better as a mention, it was only the last 20 seconds that showed the device on and he didn't even get past the setup.
i know its a short so of course you can't review the entire device but this had the feel of your average filler type content
i still have working P900 ...world's 1st smartphone ... though some call P800 1st but P900 is 1st
@@FahimHoq If you're not aware replaceable AAA batteries were the norm 25 years ago, you most likely don't have the mental capability to be on the internet at all.
It was the inspiration for smartphones.
PDAs, the pre smartphone. Lots of professional adults had them for calenders and stuff. They were popular. I remember when my neighbors mom or dad would get a new one they would give us the old one and we would get so excited 😂
I still have a Palm IIIx on my bookshelf and carried one years ago. I think of what Mr Mobile says I'm his "When Phones Were Fun" videos - it's nice nostalgia but I wouldn't want to go back to then
Ok
Wait till his guy finds out how we used to watch movies at home.
And porn!!!
Pamela Anderson...and cindy Crawford
...days..❤❤❤😊😊😊
.. ..
What is this box of tape???
📼 🧐
I used to use these on the daily in 2008. I eventually upgraded to one that had a color screen and it was amazing. The major break for through was whenever I got one that had Wi-Fi in 2010. It was absolutely devastating the day I was coming down the stairs and dropped it cracking the screen. Long live my long lost HP Palm pilot.
I had an HP iPaq that I swear had some features that were better than what today's smart phones offer. I miss that thing every now and then...
I actually miss the mono screens. You could see them in the dark and in blazing sunshine.
@@David8nnot unlike a kindle or similar. Is that impossible to produce for today? Is there no market for this?
@@BroonParker There's some E-Ink phones but they're only in parts of Asia and Europe. Amazon still makes E-Ink Kindles though.
@@jamesalexander5559 there's plenty of good (better...) e-ink ereaders that aren't amazon kindle
My friend at school has one of these and used to flex it SO fkn hard 😂
_"you playing football later?"_
*"let me check my calendar."*
"Hold on, let me check my palm pilot, Hmmm, look's like I ain't doing shit so I'mma be there"... 😂😢😂
I remember putting games on mine. The one I most remember was where you run an interplanetary trading company--lots of fun
Do you have the name of it? That sounds fun!
@@Graneka It was called "Space Trader (Palm OS)
I remember how easy it was to beam those games from one to another, and I worked at a computer company so there was a tech guy that always had access to all the games and would come by and just send you it wirelessly from his Palm pilot to yours, obviously all the classics like asteroid space Invaders etc
But there were quite a few very interesting and fun little games! He was the first one I knew to have a Palm pilot with both a color screen and a Sim Port so you he could make calls on it, actually a smartphone before the iPhone!
Wow, nice job. I tried putting Minecraft on my raspberry pie. I failed miserably putting games on that thing seems even harder there is a Minecraft raspberry pie edition and yet I still failed miserably seems a lot harder on that thing so good job.
@@DragongeekAndCocan it run doom?
the robot voice reading the setup text cracked me up.
Lol I wonder if it was an edit?
They didn't sound like that, unless they actually did that on purpose
@@vittosphonecollection57289it's edited duh
@@vittosphonecollection57289 it was an edit, these did not have sound only beeps
@@kreuner11 Oh in fact it sounded to "external" to be coming from the PDA
It kind of sounds like Soundwave from the ds game Transformers Decepticons
1999 : Humans start using PDA
2019 : PDA starts using humans
BFDI FAN SPOTTED IN THE WILD?!
This 1999 Palm Pilot screams simplicity! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am forty two years old... I supported these in my first call center job back in 2001. Yes, twenty five years is a long time in technology... but thank you for making me feel old... lol
These things were awesome back in the day! I had a Handspring Visor Neo (The knockoff Palm Pilot haha) that had a bigger screen and still ran Palm OS. I could connect my home-brew PC to the internet via dialup and sync the Palm Pilot via it's docking cradle before going to bed, then read the day's news in bed to fall asleep... And play Tetris lol. It was so ahead of its time!
you are old
@@endlessgaming6714 Well, 38 years old at least haha. Always been big into gadgets and gizmos.
@@kdupuis77 мне 39. И эти дети никогда не поймут, какими действительно крутыми были те гаджеты. И что нам приходилось делать, чтобы они работали как нам нужно. Мы с коллегами по исследованию пещер до сих пор используем старый HP iPAQ для картографии - его резистивный сенсор точный и позволяет аккуратно дорисовывать профиль хода пещеры по точкам, отмеченным лазерным дальномером.
I had Visor Prism. Read many books on it using iSilo app. 160x160 screen
Handspring was so much better!!!
The fact that you’re treating a PDA that only came out in the 90’s as if it’s a relic is incredibly insane.
1999 to be specific
this is a 1999 Toyota Camry
Holy sh1t! It's Sooooooooo oooooolllddddd
It's because it is a relic. It's entire existence taken over by smartphones. Kids today would have no idea what this is even supposed to be, and would ask you why you didn't just use a phone.
It isn't. I'm 48, so certainly not young anymore, and this device came out slightly over half my life ago, so...
In the world of handheld technology, it is.
I used to work at that company and at the building where these things were made. Considering the rest of the technology at the time these things were magical.
Can they still be bought?
I had one of these (and several others..) They were great for the time. The handwriting recognition was surprisingly accurate and fast. Fun tip, the stylus (not S-pen) has a tool inside to hit the reset switch on the end.
My grandpa had one of these! He was a nuclear engineer and he would let me play bejeweled on it when we were at the golf course. Core memory for me.
I had one of these in college circa 2004-ish. It was a lifesaver! I had a little IR keyboard that connected to the Palm Pilot. I typed ALL of my notes on it. It had a copy of Word on it. It was kind of like a mini PC - even had a menu to access all the apps, a colour screen, etc. It was much more compact and cheaper than a laptop. And the battery lasted for days!
Yes I think it was windows mobile
I had the IR keyword too! It had to be sitting in just the right spot to work. I also took notes in classes. Thanks for that trip down memory lane.
infrared keyboard? Wahh so like bluetooth keyboard? I wud like to see the note taking n wht it can do more
@@rookie3279 yea, similar to Bluetooth but infrared required line-of-sight. Like old TV remotes had to be pointed *at* the TV, the keyboard had to be lined up with my Palm.
@@vap0rtranz waah i seee. U takin notes on it just like ipad nowadays. Being able to experience it back then definitely really cool n awesome! Was it common to have it back then ? Or just certain ppl or rich ppl have it?
The Graffiti text entry system on these was arguably better than anything available today.
Yes! I was quite proficient with Graffiti, it was easy to learn.
@@TheWanderingFire ikr? It was great!
Really? Faster than just typing on modern touch screens? I have my doubts, but what do I know. Never had a PDA, but I remember eyeballing them around 2003 to 2005. They were so cool back then!
I’ve even incorporated some Graffiti strokes into my handwriting. Back in the day where I live, I was one the happy early adopters of a PDA (Palm Pilot). Had my photo stamped on a newspaper holding it.
Straight FACTS
Somebody looking at the current iphone 25 years later 😂😂
Won't even boot up at that point with crappy integrated battery.
Lol. Yeah
Lol.. what's that, you had to swipe a screen and charge it every day?
if the battery aint dead it will probably get stuck trying to update forever lmaoo
The problem is always the battery 😢… it’s not safe to keep an unused electronic device with the battery on for that long, but you can’t (easily) remove an iPhone battery. This thing didn’t have that problem. I miss things using AA or AAA batteries
I remember my Dad having one of these when I was a kid. I was, for some reason, always really fascinated by it.
In nepal it is used in government offices for performing signature😂
If I remember right,the price of some of these pda was well over $200.00. Then when ones came later could connect to internet,makes calls,was well over $300-600.
Gameboy had a PDA type of game
I always thought that these were like calculators or something ,interesting
I always thought every gringo had one xd
You know, in movies the popular girl always has one
@@osvaldogarrido3726gringo here. Didn’t have one. Please remember that movies aren’t real lol
Lmaooo
it has calculator and others apps - it literally like smartphone without cellular
There is a calculator, but it also has contact list/addressbook, calendar, and note taking applications. And you could "beam" data from one device to another using InfraRed (IR).
I have the one from 1997, & you can upgrade the memory.
HIhi
HIhi
yes, I absolutely had one of these and depended on it for email and calendar while I was on the go around NYC. It was the most amazing piece of technology at the time. I was using this and then graduated to the next version that had a color screen in 2004 I was still using it in 2006. then got an iphone
I had a Palm m100 and IIIxe. Those were a godsend for people in sales or when needing to take notes on the road before the iPhone and iPad.
I still have a zire Palm 71, fully operational, with the original cover and the dock. I bought it brand new in 2003.
I had one of these in high-school. Not that I needed it for anything, just thought it was cool tech lol
Mine was a lifesaver. Used the whole time to organize my life (todo & calendar), to read e-books - dozens of them. But I could have bought just for being cool tech too
Do people all the time treat this like some ancient discovery?
…so 25 years ago was recent for you? also, when talking about technology 25 years is even longer.
25 years ain't ancient buddy. Not even in the technology world. The OP's point still stands.
@@MrFatboyRuns 😂
@@MrFatboyRuns In the technology world it absolutely is, otherwise we would be using one of these like normal.
@@MrFatboyRunswhat piece of technology have u been dailying for 20 years or more? That’s what i thought
Omg! Not the palm pilot! I definitely had one! Had that and with my little see through turquoise pager with my pager clip and chain… I thought I was big ballin! 😂 damn I miss the 90s so much!!!
ahhhh love it. got all my dads old ones. one had cell service with a huge antenna (the 7). many hours of fun with those things
You NEED a stylus as the screen is not a touch screen as you understand, and finger taps don't really work. You need a pointy thing like a fingernail, or stylus, and a hard press.
It was a resistive touch screen, not a capacitive type.
The Palm pilots use the resistance screen which was pressure sensitive. You could use anything, even your finger as a stylus.
You talk about this like it was unearthed in an Egyptian tomb
The things like “2024! I haven’t been powered on for 25 years!”
I had Palm Pilots, Handspring Visors and pocket pcs. They were great devices.
I used to have one of these in like 2009 😂
When I was a kid, I remember my mom had one(a little bit later version) and I would draw in it all the time!
Man I had one as a kid back then but broke it on the trampoline lmao
I was born in 1999 and I had one of those 2010 I never known how to use it because I didn't learn English until 3 years later 😂😂😅
Have you found any other weird old tech?
@@niaciniv177 no not yet
my dad had a palmtop back in the day and peopole laughed at him cause it had a touch screen and was big, now they use even bigger phones and laughtfrom peopole that have phones with keyboards
I still have one! Twenty-five years ago, I used to integrate with Office (Excel and Word).
I had that exact model.
I had the attachment that allowed it to connect wirelessly to the internet.
I remember sitting at an outdoor cafe here in silicon valley and trading stocks - AT THE CAFE!
I thought I was in the future and loved every minute of it :)
Touch screen is already exist in 1999💀💀
the concept of how to make basic touch screen has been around since the 1890s
Apparently the first touch screens used in Canada were in nuclear power plants in the 1960s
I had something called a Palm Pilot, which is something similar.
I seem to remember that you could connect a modem to it and access the Internet.
Bro called me old in 254 languages
Could do a lot with those back in the day. Great for notes, pwd’s contact info, reading. Offline travel /work necessity when you were not on a computer.
I still got my PDAs. Yes I have multiple.😂 some of the most durable and reliable electronics I have owned.
Kinda amazing how things have progressed. I remember when that was the cutting edge of technology! Everyone had something like that, and a pocket pager. I remember the first cell phone I saw. I knew a guy who ran his own company, and he took it with him everywhere. It was the size of a shoebox and had a standard handset on top and a three foot antenna! I think it weighed about 10 to 15 pounds. Service was sketchy and not cheap either. Progress? Maybe...
My father had one. Company would charge both the caller and the receiver for the call, something that would probably be illegal nowadays.
Why does bro sound like the “🤓” emoji
Reminds me of Seinfeld.
bro I just watched that episode last night 🤣
@@mrnewman7816fr
I was 30 when that existed. So i was basically twice as old as this kid is now. Time flies
My dad gave me his Palm III when he upgraded to a newer model. I used to play missile command on it. It rocked! Though I dont think I had much use for the organizational features at six years old, I got pretty good at that bizarro alphabet "palm graffiti" for little notes.
Use this all the time
Use it for game notes
Alarm
Ideas and such. I love it
So you put down your phone and pick this up? Why split things between multiple devices? Surely your phone has a notes app and an alarm...
I had one of these. It was fantastic.
I had the Palm V (and afterwards Palm Treo that already integrated a mobile phone). Colleagues made fun of me using NO paper calendar but Palm, synchronized with Outlook.
Palm Treo was amazing.
I would read ebooks on that screen before eink was a thing.
Palm Treo, the Granddaddy of Smartphones. I’ve had both the Palm and Windows Mobile versions of these. I consider these over BlackBerry as the Grandfather of Smartphones, being the Palm PDAs were around before BlackBerrys were. I’m sure some will disagree.
PDA’s!!! Haha I remember these. Never had one though. Too cool
Had one of those back in 2000, unfortunately stolen in 2002. The big difference to our devices nowadays is how much this old tech can endure without internal battery. Today if you need to change the batteries you might as well change the whole device for a new one.
My dad had one. There was a submarine game that was super fun.
Creep: we're going to kidnap a kid come on
Creep's friend: I'll bring my 1999 caculator's S-pen as a threat
You got a weapon, reminder for kidnapping and can make notes about which kid you want to kidnap. It's a complete kidnapping package.
Aw yes the Palm pilot.
That robotic reading is hilarious 😂 😃 😄 😁 🤣
I used to play with one of these as a kid I had old pagers and cell phones from the 90s I love old devices
I still love palm pilots, I had one of the very first color lcds, then my step brother got a Sony, which had a digital camera on the back, man we really need to bring these things back, as phones have primarily become a means of entertainment, it’s hard for me to get my (everything a palm pilot was made for) straight on the same device I use for everything else
Better than Samsung Galaxy s24
Better then trash iphones
@@prabhattripathi2692 true 😂
@@prabhattripathi2692 better than your mom
"Cool little s-pen" what? It's just a stylus
It's called a joke
@@Knowingnoneif it’s a joke where’s the funny bit?
@@Knowingnonejokes are funny though so it wasn't a joke
@@Knowingnone kids don't have any sense of humor
I HAVE TWO OF THOSE THINGS IN BLUE!!!!!!!!!
(Not those exact ones, I have the model from 2000 but it’s practically the same specs)
I had one and is was fantastic! You could loud the maps on it to have a navigation system in your car. Gives me good vibes. Very sad that Palm missed the opportunity to improve against mobile phones.
That tech from 25 years ago.. quarter of a century.. . Come on, man..
Ok but "Personal Digital Assistant" sounds super cool!
PDA sounds even cooler 😎
@@joashchechet1675 You're right!
No one ever said Personal Digital Assistant, just like no one ever said Automatic Teller Machine.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Idek what ATM stood until now, thanks! 🤣🤣
@@olmostgudinaf8100Automatic Transfer Machine
Wow that's awesome it's still working ❤❤❤❤❤😂
I had one of those things. A beautiful piece of hardware it was! Great UI.
Ahh I loved my palm pilot as a teenager!
Omg! I remember those!!!!
u'r now officially ancient.
I still use this model actually
Take me back to my pre-teen years baby. 1999 I was in middle school, in grade 7 I miss the 80's & 90's and early 2000's.
I still have one of these. Very well built
I want this
I had it back in the day. The hand writing recognition left a bit to be desired but otherwise it was a very usable device.
Me too I want this. But I don't know where I could get it. Old is gold 🥇❤
dont be so hard on it, the last updates are fine.
Yes. I still have mine.
It's 2024 :- I WANT THAT FOLDABLE SQUARE LAPTOP!
So nostalgic😂❤I have never seen that before(even)😂
Still got my palm pilot, I used it to tune my car, Eagle Talon turbo...
Now I'm curious... You connect your Palm to the OBC2 port?
Serial port to OBD2 connector, to view and record parameters via the car. Then a program you would download your data to. Helped to adjust the piggyback ECU, four manual knobs, 0-5, in a box under the hood to adjust WOT, MAF, PSI, and A/F ratio. 1997 AWD TSi Talon, 2G DSM. Miss Her..
@@bmx135536 Nice! I didn't know there was such a connector.