cross-posted from: https://mamot.fr/users/thibaultamartin/statuses/113879452911907737
Palms were offline devices that only synced with your computer when put on a docking station.
You could read and reply to emails offline, book or cancel meetings, and sync with your computer later. The latest versions allowed you to snap pictures and listen to your music.
No servers running constantly. No data spilled everywhere. Days worth of battery on a single charge.
The future stole our cables, and it took our attention span and our privacy with it.
#privacy #offline #data
This was college life for me. Took notes on it because I could type faster than I could write. Bitter sweet memories as I have a love hate relationship with my current always connected phone.
But for phones the BlackBerry keyboard is what I really miss. That and the sliding form factor of the palm pre. Then there was windows ce devices. This were cool, but were huge and guzzled battery power.
Oh man I miss my BlackBerry Pearl, those were awesome devices. And the company BES server delivered email faster than anything. I always got notifications a couple of seconds before my iPhone colleagues who had made the switch.
Two letters per key and the auto correct was just so flipping good. I could fly on that keyboard.