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I used to love these PDAs. I had an Acer N30, but at the time, these devices couldn't do that much.

I guess the relative unpopularity was given the fact that wifi or 4G wasn't ubiquitous, like it is nowadays. But oh boy did I love searching random little games for that thing and playing around with it.




They were not unpopular at all. They weren't for everyone, but most tech people I knew either had a palm or Psion.

And as others have mentioned, you could tether over cable or irda.

I used to check my email like that in the middle of nowhere when I was traveling in Australia.


> but most tech people I knew either had a palm or Psion.

Some less fortunate people had Windows CE PDAs. Bigger, heavier, clunkier battery eaters (well before rechargeables were ubiquitous).




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