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
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.