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Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Post by m0ngr31 »

razemio wrote: post #5

I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing. Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days... Blackberry will…

That Palm Pre keyboard was truly something else. Sad we'll never see anything else like it.

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Post by pjerem »

razemio wrote: post #5

I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing. Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days... Blackberry will…

Ha, I started with Windows CE "Pocket PC". An HP iPaq H1930 iirc and then a Dell Axim x50v.

These devices were really niche, to say the least. I’ve never seen another than the mines. Still, there was an astonishingly high number of available applications. Some developers from this era, especially game devs, are now great mobile devs.

Talking about games, there were some real gems on those devices. Hell, there was even an Age of Empires port. It’s sad that they are mostly lost.

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Post by erulabs »

Hah I remember my Palm Treo so fondly. 2008 was such exciting times. I was a Jr. SysAdmin and you just couldn't be cooler than some slick PHP/MySQL/jQuery work. The Honda Civic SI of all cars had the coolest motor around and tech was at its most optimistic.

Those were the days!

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Post by deniska »

Palm IIIe. Great little device I had as a kid. Sim City, Strategic Commander, some other games. BASIC, Lisp, maybe some other interpreters also?

And AvantGo web browser, which primary mode of operation was syncing pages with a desktop computer to view offline.

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Post by bodge5000 »

razemio wrote: post #5

I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing. Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days... Blackberry will…

I've heard good things about these mini chorded keyboards you can use with your phone to avoid on-screen keyboards. Obviously nowhere near as convinient as built in, but it seems its the best we've got.

Oh other than that pinephone keyboard case, but that requires you to change phone as well

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Post by prpl »

Void_ wrote: post #9

Palm Zire 72. It had a freakin camera! I remember reading newest Harry Potter book on that thing. You love those gadgets much more when you're a kid.

I still have a few photos from the 71 kicking around.

The universal remote app was fun at university student union.

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