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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

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

My palm treo 650 was the most badass phone ever

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. While Android can do far more, the Treo keyboard kicked ass.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 hours ago

Ooh, midi tones!

Though the Treo could use MP3 for tones too. It could also play video files, I remember watching Mars Attacks on a flight. Ate the hell out of battery, but I always carried multiples.

It was truly the first viable smart phone. With a wifi SD card, I could browse the web (albeit with terrible speed and a pitiful browser, but better than other mobile devices at the time) and sync to my laptop over wifi.