Gone but Not Forgotten: Palm

guest · Sep 4, 2020

Gone but Not Forgotten: Palm
PDA = Personal Digital Assistant
September 3, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/article/2083-palm/

Palm Inc., originally known as Palm Computing, was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins. Together with Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, the company went on to invent the original Palm Pilot. The Pilot was one of the earliest and most successful personal digital assistants which made the name “Palm” synonymous with PDAs and a leading handheld computing form factor for nearly a decade.

This was a simplified PDA that primarily did four functions: memos, address book, calendar, and to-do lists. The Pilot went on to dominate the PDA market, selling over a million in the first year and half alone.
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The Palm brand was sold to TCL.

Palm no longer exists as a company, but the name was used to brand a “companion device” released in late 2018. The device is powered by Android Oreo and is meant to be a secondary device in lieu of a smartwatch. This “Palm phone” is about the size of a credit card and features a simplified grid of app icons to emphasize the minimalist nature of the device.

It remains to be seen if TCL decides to officially resurrect Palm. However, respect must be given to one of the company that had an enormous impact on how smartphones are used today.
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trott3r · Sep 4, 2020

Yep maybe the treo650 was the first smartphone or was it that nokia e85?

Still use my tungsten t3 for datebook 6 and handshopper nothing on android is quite as feature rcih

Rasheed187 · Sep 5, 2020

Yes, I remember Palm, I remember people felt cool when they owned a Palm V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_V

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