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 that 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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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).
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 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.
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...
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
Had the Palm Zire in 2003... Hacked the OS to change the keyboard so I could type faster, and it was my companion till the end of medical school... Good memories!
I remember getting one of these too replace my Apple Newton Messagepad 100. After that i got a Sony Clie, which i replaced with a Palm Treo which was a smartphone, and then a Palm Centro. Then my brothers got the first iPhone and acted like they were the first ones to have a smartphone when i had had one for years by that time.
It’s funny been handing old tech into a local shop and it’s wild chatting with the youngsters (36 myself) about stuff they have no idea about or answering their questions when they haven’t seen some of the old tech in their life that I handing over.
I just want to point out, as a living fossil, absolutely NO ONE ever said “personal digital assistant”. I’ve never heard it said out loud in my 40 years on earth until this very day and boy, NERD! But yeah, no. They are called PDA’s. It’s apparently also the product category, but I can assure you that as someone who was actually there, all of these devices were simply called PDA’s just like all pagers were simply beepers. lol. Please never call them “personal digital assistants” because someone will hear you and stuff you in a trash can or something 😂
Not true, they were actually called 'personal digital assistants', at least in marketing and journalism/reporting. It was a very clunky term to use in conversation, though.
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..
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 😂
Thanks for making me feel old even though I'm only 22. Dad had one when I was little, I was fascinated by it because it was the first time I'd seen a touch screen in real life. This was like 2008, so it was more advanced, had a colour screen and whatnot.
Jesus Christ this takes me back… I remember my dad giving me this when he moved onto the newer version of the palm, I think I was like 5-6 years old at the time… What a blast from the past.
Nah, this wasn't our calendar. Back then we all had fully featured bio-processor controlled high efficiency calendars with us, called 'brain'. too bad humanity forgot how to make use of it. Maybe in 100 years technology will be there again ..
@@felixlohrer9600 Never needed such things. Actually I see them as added complication on top of what we have to keep and process ourselves. I always scheduled in a way where I either complete things immediately or up to a point where it depends on others to be able to continue, so there'll be an automatic reminder (by them) once they are ready and you can continue :)
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.
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 that 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)
@@user-fy9vg1rd4rare you having a stroke
@@user-fy9vg1rd4r 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?
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* 😂😂😂😂😂
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.
Was it called a stylus in the 90s, or is S Pen just a mistake?
@@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?
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
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
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.
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😂
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
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.
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???
📼 🧐
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
1999 : Humans start using PDA
2019 : PDA starts using humans
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
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
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.
@@c.j.nyssen6987 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.
I have the one from 1997, & you can upgrade the memory.
HIhi
HIhi
You talk about this like it was unearthed in an Egyptian tomb
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
@@vittosphonecollection4134it's edited duh
@@vittosphonecollection4134 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
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
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?
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 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?
Aw yes the Palm pilot.
Bro called me old in 254 languages
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 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?
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.
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.
The things like “2024! I haven’t been powered on for 25 years!”
Why does bro sound like the “🤓” emoji
I still have a zire Palm 71, fully operational, with the original cover and the dock. I bought it brand new in 2003.
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.
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).
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
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
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
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
Omg! I remember those!!!!
u'r now officially ancient.
"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
That tech from 25 years ago.. quarter of a century.. . Come on, man..
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.
In those days, my dad's Compaq PDA was a forbidden thing to touch or you could be grounded with no tv and video games, just books and silence 😅
I love when you show the batteries to the camera like we have to believe you used normal ones
Reminds me of Seinfeld.
bro I just watched that episode last night 🤣
My dad had one. There was a submarine game that was super fun.
Yes. I still have mine.
I still use this model actually
Why is the planner’s voice a super battle droid that’s infinitely going up in pitch?
Why did we go from this to paper planners
Ahh I loved my palm pilot as a teenager!
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
Better than Samsung Galaxy s24
Better then trash iphones
@@prabhattripathi2692 true 😂
@@prabhattripathi2692 better than your mom
Does it play Doom ?
It does
My m105 most certainly did
dont be so hard on it, the last updates are fine.
" STALKERS! A emission is approaching! Seek cover immideatly! "
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.
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.
I totally had one of those :D
They rocked. :D
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
L'ancêtre du smart phone.
Had the Palm Zire in 2003... Hacked the OS to change the keyboard so I could type faster, and it was my companion till the end of medical school... Good memories!
I remember getting one of these too replace my Apple Newton Messagepad 100.
After that i got a Sony Clie, which i replaced with a Palm Treo which was a smartphone, and then a Palm Centro.
Then my brothers got the first iPhone and acted like they were the first ones to have a smartphone when i had had one for years by that time.
Dude just reminded me of something I didn't even know I remembered.
I used to have one, I never could do the Graffiti writing very well.
It was definitely different! Haha now I use swipe on my phone and it's way easier haha
i used to have Palms before smartphones. I feel old thanks.
I had a PDA and a beeper ✌️😎👍
Okay, grandpa, let's get you back to bed. 😉
@@kwinzman That was when I was getting my grade 5. Number juan stunna
@@kwinzman It was a palm pilot too
It’s funny been handing old tech into a local shop and it’s wild chatting with the youngsters (36 myself) about stuff they have no idea about or answering their questions when they haven’t seen some of the old tech in their life that I handing over.
I just want to point out, as a living fossil, absolutely NO ONE ever said “personal digital assistant”. I’ve never heard it said out loud in my 40 years on earth until this very day and boy, NERD!
But yeah, no. They are called PDA’s. It’s apparently also the product category, but I can assure you that as someone who was actually there, all of these devices were simply called PDA’s just like all pagers were simply beepers. lol.
Please never call them “personal digital assistants” because someone will hear you and stuff you in a trash can or something 😂
What?
Not true, they were actually called 'personal digital assistants', at least in marketing and journalism/reporting.
It was a very clunky term to use in conversation, though.
exactly my point
Party like it's 1999
I use to sell these at “Circuit City” back in 1999.. I worked in the Computer department. 😂
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.
i owned one 👍
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 😂
Definitely want one of these. Completely forgot about them for like 15 years, now that I see them again I want em
1999 feels like 1989. But really I guess stylus was pretty cool back then.
in 1999 I was 19 and in 1989 I was 9 so I kindly disagree :)
@@Ezyasnos What I mean is that device feels like from 1989 because of its design, even though it was released in 1999.
Stylus is still cool now in 2024. Love editing photos on S23U with s-pen, way more precise than using fingers.
These were so high-tech when they came out it's hilarious seeing them get made fun of for being old
I used to have one of those that I bought from a thrift store
My second phone was made by palm.
Two words: Kyle's Quest
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.
Thanks for making me feel old even though I'm only 22. Dad had one when I was little, I was fascinated by it because it was the first time I'd seen a touch screen in real life. This was like 2008, so it was more advanced, had a colour screen and whatnot.
What kind of thrift store is that from
probably goodwill
Jesus Christ this takes me back… I remember my dad giving me this when he moved onto the newer version of the palm, I think I was like 5-6 years old at the time… What a blast from the past.
That first sound effect was petty 😂😂😂
Ok, where is the rest of the video?
:)
Nah, this wasn't our calendar. Back then we all had fully featured bio-processor controlled high efficiency calendars with us, called 'brain'. too bad humanity forgot how to make use of it. Maybe in 100 years technology will be there again ..
I am not sure how your schedule looks / looked, but I used a "brain etxension" called book calendar since I was in school.
@@felixlohrer9600 Never needed such things. Actually I see them as added complication on top of what we have to keep and process ourselves. I always scheduled in a way where I either complete things immediately or up to a point where it depends on others to be able to continue, so there'll be an automatic reminder (by them) once they are ready and you can continue :)
The Filofax ruled the early 90's
De todas maneras necesitas un calendario.
I still have one of my old Palm devices. Wish I still had the charging dock for it.
That star screamer voice is still unmatched
Way too dramatic
“Let me check my palm pilot” 🕺🏾 😂
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.
Daaaamn that opening sound gets me every time😂😂😂
Zoomers using the PDA’s full acronym and calling a stylus an S Pen is just a lot of me feeling old today.