What PDA's have you had in your past?

[LockeEVP]

I had:
Palm 1000, Vx, M515

[archangel]

Over the last three years.

IBM Z50
Sony Clie S300
Ipaq
Sony Clie 710C
Sony Clie NR70
Palm Tungsten T
Sony Clie NX60 - current PDA

Of all the ones I had the Win CE IBM Z50 and the Ipaq were the most unreliable. Very bad ownership experience and I sold them both within two months of ownership.

I briefly tried the Tungsten T, but after a month I got rid of it as well. Once you have owned a Clie its hard to be satisfied by a Palm. You don't realize all the great software Sony bundles in with handhelds (Clie RMC, Audio Player, Movie Player, MS import, and on and on) until you buy a Palm and get nothing except Versa Mail. You end up having to spend an extra hundred bucks for a SD card reader and replacements for all the stuff that came with a Clie. My wife choice to sell her own N760C and keep my OS 4.1 NR70 instead of the Palm Tungsten T. She hated the thing and would never have anything, but a Clie for herself.

[ayasin]

Palm Vx, m505, m515, NR70V, NX70V, Tungsten T and a partridge in a pear tree :)

[fjl307]

Just my old Visor :) and soon my SL10...going to be replaced either by an NX, TG50 or one of these new models that is soon to come out.

[NX70BOY]

Only a couple:

Palm III
Palm m100 (Saw a real good deal, so I bought to make a profit...didn't really use)
NR70
NX70V (I don't have it yet, but am about to buy one)

[*YellowRose*]

Palm IIIxe
Visor Prism
Sony N760v
Sony NR70
Sony NX70v


All are still working and in the loving hands of family members, except for the NR (it had bad battery issues and was returned before I'd had it a month!)

[phish]

Palm Pliot Pers. - Later upgraded to with 2mb upgrade card
Palm IIIc- That now looks like this (http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/dave-alum-iiic-shell-review.html)
Palm IIIxe
Clie T-665C - The best PDA I have had by far.

[aaronrkelly]

Palm m130, Ipaq, Visor edge, Visor Neo, Visor Prism and Sony T615 (current)

[jmg_NX21]

Palm Pilot upgraded to Professional
THEN
an ORANGE Handspring Visor
AND today an NX70 :D

I am in no hurry to upgrade
*grins*

[yOyOYoo]

Palm IIIxe
Palm M505
Sony N710c
Sony N760c
Sony T615c
Sony NR70v
Sony TG50

The TG50 is my favorite CLIE so far. I just wish the keyboard backlight was evenly lighted and there was more RAM.

[Seul]

I had a Handspring Visor Deluxe for the past 2 years.

I'm just waiting for the voucher from its Product Replacement Plan, and then I'm planning on buying an SJ33.

[rhart00]

PalmPilot 1000
IBM WorkPad (rebranded Palm PDA...can't remember number)
Palm 3
Handspring Visor Edge
Palm m505
Sony Clie N760c
Sony NX70v

[LockeEVP]

Heh, my old pilot 1000 was high teck in 1998, Makes us appreaciate the Clie:D

Wonder what would happen if sombody figured out a way to bring an NX70v back two 1998.

Anyway I currently own an NX70v.

[Pdasrock]

Wow phish, wicked IIIc,

 

 Visor solo

IIIc

Nr70v

Nx70v(Yeah baby)

 

And maybe if I win the lottery I'll get the pcg-gt3/k, the most beatuiful laptop under the sun, only costing $2200, and I'm 15.... oh well(grins, hugs nx, is happy...)

[Jimmy Stuntz]

Here's my list in order:

Palm IIIx
Palm V
Compaq Ipaq 3650
Compaq Ipaq 3850
Sony Clie NX70V

[syeds]

My PDAs in the order of acquisition:-

1. Palm Pro - can't remember date... (sold)
2. Palm IIIx - 25/12/99; loved it! 15/01/00 upgraded it to 8MB (sold).
3. Palm IIIc - 02/06/00; lured by the prospect of color... (sold)
4. Palm Vx - 06/10/00; tempted by the slim form factor (sold)
5. Psion Revo Plus - can't remember date
6. Clie 615C - 17/04/02; it's time to feel the power of Sony (battery life and screen a letdown)
7. Clie SJ30 - 17/11/02; tempted by the screen n the small form factor
8. Palm Zire 71 - 04/05/03; OS5, screen, speakers, navi stick but it's a pain to keep it in your pants etc without accidentally turning it on...had to resort to 3rd party softwares to overcome this problem...and the so-called plastic case is horrible. I guess they didn't factor in the case factor when designing the otherwise excellent Zire 71. Just wish it had more internal RAM though...and some sort of MS Import utility. I really missed this awesome app. I was using my MS as a storage for many non-Palm apps.

Regards

[kwhipp01]

IIIc
Visor Prism
Clie 615

[slbenz]

Here is what I have owned:
Psion 5x
Palm Vx
Handspring Prism

[boagie17]

First one was my Cassiopea....yes pocket pc... Got stolen with along with my 2000 Acura Integra. Second, to replace that was the Visor Edge. That finally conked out after a year and because of my wonderful girlfriend, convinced me to get the BB's warranty with the Edge I upgraded to the N760C. Needless to say I was in love! And a whole calender year later, the N760C got wasted by god knows what I now have my total entertainment system-my NX60.

[pharmnatr]

Sharp Wizards
Palm 3
Palm V
NX70

[revbilly]

There was another clamshell something that was a gift that wouldn't sync with the computer. My son wound up with it.
The first of real use was a Rolodex REX, which I still have
Visor Deluxe
Visor Platinum
Visor Prism
NX70V

[whtewolf66]

handspring deluxe
handspring prism ( passed on to boyfriend)
handspring treo (backlight went in less than a month, thank god for bestbuy warranty)
sony clie TG50 (current and love it)

[Oripaamoni]

look at my list below

[mouthdrummer]

Since 1996:
Pilot1000
Pilot5000
Palm Pilot
Palm III
Palm Vx
SONY CLIE NX70V!!! (I finally got smart!)

[OcellNuri]

I can play this game...

Sega Personal IR Communicator!
- Got me from 4th to 6th grade. I still have it. Great little device for a kid. One of those "electronic diary" type devises. It had a TV remote program built in. Used it for phone numbers and journal. Now I don't know what the password was and I've been locked out of my own journal!

NEC MobilePro 700
- Got this in 9th grade I think. Big, slow, monochrome, poor battery life, but it was free! Wide screen with keyboard... this thing was pretty friggin cool. It had a built in modem so I would tap into my dail up account while on the road. WindowsCE was my introduction to Avantgo.

Handspring Visor Deluxe - Ice Blue
- Used this device from 10th to 11th grade I think... sort of fuzzy on that. My introduction to PalmOS.

Handspring Visor Pro
- Had to have it because I had a couple Springboard modules, and it was the first Palm with 16 meg of RAM. Also my first built in battery. It spoiled me so much, but in the end it was a dissapointment. I think I would have been a lot happier if I had gone with a m505. But then again, rocking my GPS springboard module was worth it, and it saved me many many times as I started driving. Getting real time position with Mapopolis is priceless when you don't know where you are.

T615
- This is when I fell in love with color. Slim form factor, something the Visor never had, and HiRes! I still miss this unit. The form factor is just soo hard to beat. I hold my friend's every now and then, and I really miss it. I had the Innopocket aluminum case for it. Very nice.

NR70V
- I had to have Hires+. I didn't think I would use the camera, but I was very very very wrong. The speed difference was also very dramatic.

NX70V
- New Year's Eve, 2003 I dropped my NR while at a party. The screen was DOA. I used my CompUSA plan (I knew there was a reason to get it) to get the NX. I didn't really want it, because I had my NR setup just the way I liked it. Now, though, I have to say it is the best thing that has happened to me. The speed and features of the NX have blown me away. Now with the WiFi card I have found tons of new uses for my trusty PDA.


My progression has been kind of interesting. I went from carrying my NEC MobilePro around in a big leather binder, to a square Visor, to a sleek T615, back up to a moderately sized NX. I am amazed when I think back to the applications I had loaded on my Visor Deluxe, and the things I have on my NX. Though a few of the programs remain from my first Palm, most of the programs do much much more than I ever thought would be possible.

[jiserrab]

Vx

T665c

and now a Palm Zire!!! No not the new one with a camera, the first one with two hard buttons, no back light and a whopping 2mb!....actually got it free at a Medical conference preloaded with some cardiovascular risk software...it's still in the box....btw

Of course in perpetual wait for the next Clie.

[TechnoCat]

DataStor 8000 (circa 1985, like a large calculator)
DataStor 8000c (circa 85 on, credit-card sized)

These pups had 8000 BITS of memory, but only took six bits per character (no lower case). Calendar, schedule, contact manager, 16 alarms that could be tied to any record. The 8000c model came in a slim credit-card sized case, held to it via rubber magnet!

HP 95LX, 100LX, 200LX - from whenever they were released, probably late 80s, through to now. DOS palmtops with PCMCIA expansion, IR, keyboard, and good PDA software in ROM.

IBM PC110. Not technically a PDA, but a tiny Win95 VGA computer. Used it as a PDA for a while.

Palm IIIc. Got it with my DSL. Otherwise I would have never left keyboards.

Which brings us to last year, at which point it gets complex and messy due to development tasks, but includes both PPCs and Palms, including a Zire71 for the wife.

[Stumper]

First real electronic organizer would be the Sharp EL something or other. Pretty much a calculator that had letters.
Palm Pilot Personal - Just became outdated for what I needed.
Palm IIIxe - Took a nasty spill off my desk.
Sony S320 - Killed by my two year old son.
Sony N760C - Killed by a large woman on an airplane Email me if you want the full story :P
Sony NZ90 - A true wonder!!! Best pda I have ever owned. Damn near beats my laptop.

[sjmawson]

On the light side:
Pilot Pro
Palm IIIx
Palm V
Palm Vx proto (with expanded memory, but still called V)
Palm Vx
Palm M505

Then over to the dark side:
T615
NR70V
NX70V

Whilst waiting for all my apps to become OS5 friendly (Quicksheet - promised soon; Smartlist - ??; Doing - ??) the NR is still my PDA for daily use. Would love a programme that allows OS5 to emulate OS4

Favourite PDAs? Pilot Pro (I still pick it up from time to time and marvel at it); Vx; NR70.

What have I learnt? I clearly have more money than sense (not difficult). Palm can't really come to terms with those hires/virtual input ideas can they ...... and Sony can't cope with the idea of people who want to use FOLDING KEYBOARDS - they must be taking a patent out on thumbs ;).

Simon

[cerberus]

1A - Philips Velo 1 - Ran Windows CE 1.0. 16 color greyscale, built-in modem and a built-in keyboard. Got me first hooked on PDAs.

2A - Sony S300 - Great little machine even if it was Sony's first attempt at today's Clie.

3A - Sony N760C - Oh man, if I ever had to give up my NX, I'd go back to the 760C. I really hated to give this one up. Nice form factor, reliable, and I even had a Titanium case for it..... *tears*

4A - Sony NR70 - No camera, but it was the first clamshell. I loved it! Besides, widescreen movies in Kinoma really impressed the chicks(well, more guys than chicks).

5A - Sony NX70 - What can I say about it? It's a superb machine that does what I need and then some!

Now for my wife's small PDA list....
1B - Sony T-615 - Hated this little sucker. Battery life...what battery life? Got her through 2 years of medical school though.

2B - Sony T-665 - Awesome little machine. My wife loves it and she is even thinking about getting a NX! I'll have to upgrade to the NZ so I can stay ahead of her!

[cbulock]

My first real PDA was a NEC MobilePro 450 running Windows CE 1.0, but was later upgraded to 2.0 (no flash ROM back then, had to dish out $100 for the upgrade). Had an 8MB PCMCIA flash memory card. This thing rocked back then.

Took me a while to upgrade, but next was an m130. This got me hooked on Palms, but I needed something more powerful.

So, now I got me an NX60. Hopefully I won't need to upgrade anytime soon, but I guess I'll have to see what comes out next.:)

[j0nblayz]

Started with a SL10, then upgraded to T415, then T615, then upgraded to a iPAQ 1910, then i just exchanged that for my current T665, T665 has to be jus the perfect PDA ever made..

[Sideway]

Visor Deluxe
N760C

That's all...

[RoyoftheRovers]

Started way back with a Psion 3a (including a 512k expansion pack - wow!), then moved on to a Vx. From there to a N760 (mainly because of the MP3) and loving my NX70.

[Talula]

Palm m125, Palm m515, T665c

- Still waiting for a nonClamshell HiRes+ Clie

I also own an SJ20 for backup and I bought a used Toshiba E310 for $50 just to see what PPC was all about.

[Roni]

I've had 2 pdas till date, Palm Vx and Hp jornada 565... now i'm waiting to get the nz90

[mouthdrummer]

Originally posted by sjmawson

Whilst waiting for all my apps to become OS5 friendly (Quicksheet - promised soon;

I'm using quicksheet on my NX70V (OS5) and it works fine. I upgraded my previous version of QuickOffice, and I've had no problems.

[davidees]

Phillips Nino running WinCE
Palm VX
t615c
T665c

[jconaway99]

All of these since 12/25/2001:
Sharp organizer (No longer in use)
Visor Deluxe (Can't sell, present from my wife)
Visor Platinum (Sold)
Visor Neo (Sold)
Visor Prism (Sold)
Audiovox Maestro (Sold)
Treo90 (Sold)
NR70V (Sold)
NX70V (No plans to sell or upgrade - yet).

I think I have a problem...I should get help.:D

[Wolfsmoke]

Guess I'm a lightweight... Started with the Clie T415, one year later, almost to the day (can you say "tax refund"?) it was the NX70V. I am QUITE content to stay put for awhile!

[Burdie]

Originally posted by Stumper
Sony S320 - Killed by my two year old son.
Sony N760C - Killed by a large woman on an airplane Email me if you want the full story :P


These stories sound like something we would all enjoy hearing!:)

Burdie

[Burdie]

I started with a Palm V. Loved it, but it soon filled up. I sold it to one of my brothers-in-law.

Bought a Palm Vx. It went bad - half the screen would not work. By the time I was done with Palm support I had gone through SEVEN Palm Vx's. When the last one came I gave it to my daughter. (She used it for about 9 months and then it went bad - same problem, half the screen was unresponsive).

I bought a T415.

After I heard about Cliesource, and all the stuff Clies could do, I decided to get a colour PDA. I went looking for the T615 but they were sold out, so I bought a T665 (and sold my T415 to my daughter - bless her!).

I really like the T665.

Burdie

[BBERIC]

Visor Platinum
Dell Axim X5
SJ30
T665
NX60

[Wizardb]

Started out with the Sharp Wizard, then the Handera trg Pro, then a Handspring Visor Platinum, then a Handspring Visor prism and now the Sony T665. Don't have any of my old ones-- always had to sell to help pay for the new one.

[TheSpies]

Sharp PC-1500a
Atari Portfolio
Fujitsu Poqet Plus
Palm III
Palm IIIxe
Palm IIIc

[Rick 098]

Originally posted by aaronrkelly
Palm m130, Ipaq, Visor edge, Visor Neo, Visor Prism and Sony T615 (current)


Am I the only person who started with color besides you?
And am I the only one besides wolfsmoke who statred with a Clie?

T615-NX-60(current)

Waiting fo next NX. Will probobly upgrade then.

[NETO]

palm m101,Ipaq,VII,Vx,V,palm III,nN760c,NR70, and my love the NX70

[Alistar]

NX70 then ... wait that's all I got.

[Kesh]

Handspring Visor Deluxe
Handspring Visor Prism
Handspring Treo 90
Sony Clie TG-50 (current)


It took PalmOS 5 to make me leave Handspring behind. If they can make something that will beat my new Clie, I'll go back. Otherwise... well, I like my Clie. :)

[Rick 098]

Originally posted by NETO
palm m101,Ipaq,VII,Vx,V,palm III,nN760c,NR70, and my love the NX70
M-101? Do you mean M-100?

[Demo]

Royal something or other...aka paperweight
Jornada 525
Jornada 548
Audiovox Maestro
Sony S360
Sony T615C
Sony NR70V
iPaq 3650
Toshiba e335
and back to, of course, my NR70V

Matt

[mdj1215]

In order of ownership:

1. Palm III
2. Handspring Visor Prism
3. Sony T615

[ncoday]

Only had 2, the Palm V and my NX70V. Jumped many generations, never saw Palm OS 4 at all!

[dphar]

It is absolutely amazing to remember back to my first (only 6 yrs ago) but some of you folks sound like you used an abacus!

Sharp something or other to keep track of addresses

Palm Pro (bought used in 1998 and knew I was hooked!)

Palm Vx--was I cool!

T615c- when Palm started faltering in hardware and support (ever have a button get stuck under the case?) What a difference in the color as well

And now NX70V! While I wasn't quite ready to retire the 615, the fall from my pocket in the parking lot convinced me that I could not last more than 3 hrs without my brain!

 

[PvV]

Palm Pilot Pro, Palm IIIx, Palm IIIc, Clie NR70, Clie NZ90

... and what a long and strange trip it has been. It's been wonderful to see so much development occur so rapidly!

[DaveTN]

Started out with an NEC MobilPro (WinCE 1.0), then got a Hnadspring visor but only had it for a week. Purchased a Compaq Aero2110 with Win CE 2.0 and upgraded to PocketPC shortly thereafter. It still works and also doubles as a paperweight on my desk. Its a Pocket PC for people with large pockets. Then, last year I started the Palm Bonanza with a Palm VIIx which I gave to my brother in law (to justify purchasing a PEG T415 which I had for 3 months and sold to a co-worker. Used the profits to buy a PEG T615C which I am happily using now. The only way I will ever own a new Palm is if I'm divorced which my wife tells me will happen if I buy a new Palm...hmmm that NZ looks nice. :D :rolleyes:

David

[IamKelso]

A Cybiko (don't ask)
S360 (my poor baby will be missed)
SJ20 (It works...at least)

[PDA gadgetfreak]

Handspring Visor (2 meg version) August 2000
Sony S-360 early Feb 2002
Sony SJ-30 early Feb 2003

[paqman]

See my sig!

[Srevets]

Palm Vx (sold just last week)
Sony Clie NX70V - the virtual graffiti temptress got to me! :p

[jims]

(1) Sharp Zaurus ZR5000 (ahead of it's time!)

(2) Palm IIIx,  (Wow, 4MB?  that was crazy, who would use that much memory??)  :D

(3) Palm Vx,  (Hall of fame PDA form factor for sure)

(4) Sony T665 (Wow, hi res/64K colour and MP3s - Cool!)

[Vidge]

[list=1]
Pilot 5000
Palm Pro
Palm III
Palm IIIx
Palm IIIxe
Palm m505
Sony NR70V (current)
[/list=1]

[Wenda]

This question has been asked many times. Anyway this is my path, PSION II PDA (i got this from an antique shop :) ), Palm Vx (dead), Clie T 665, Tungsten|T. If you asked me which one gave a very meaningful lesson, I'd have choosen Palm Vx. I won't repeat the same mistake.

[wilfredt]

HP 200LX - DOS based palmtop, with CF slot. I run tons of old DOS applications in it, very cool device

Toshiba Libretto 50 - small Pentium sub-notebook. Small enough as my pda at those days

Toshiba Libretto 70 - Pentium MMX upgrade,with bigger HD

Sharp Mobilon 4500 - Windows CE HPC, with builtin modem, color + camera acessory

TRGpro - 1st Palm device. Builtin CF slot, able to play wav file.

Palm IIIc

Palm m505

NR70

VAIO U1 - Crusoe XP sub-notebook. Very nice to complement my NR70.

NZ-90 - best PDA I've ever used.

VAIO U3 - to replace my U1. Same color with my black NZ-90 :D

SE P800 - also as a pda, plus serving my NZ90 as bluetooth modem.

[RoyoftheRovers]

Must admit that so far my N760 has been my fave (until I broke the screen - oops), although my NX70 is slowly catching up (esp. with the CF driver).

ROTR

[NX70BOY]

Originally posted by Rick 098
....T615-NX-60(current)....

Rick, didn't you say in a previous thread that you had an S-clie for school?

[Drachen]

Fun thread.

1 - Palm V
2 - Casio E-125
3 - Casio E-200
4 - Clie NZ90

I purchased the Palm V from Urban Fetch on a whim during the dot-com boom. God I miss that company. :D

[Caleb_pearson]

handspring visor *only 2 megs of memory... heh, ouch*

palm 505 *huge boost from the visor, but it stopped hotsync'n with the usb port 3 weeks after I got it. I was very angry*

sony nr70v *love this pda, will stay with it until os6 prolly*