Mobilitysite: What’s Your Smartphone/PDA History?
badersk
· 2 months ago
I started with a BE300 and when I realized its limitations I bought a HP1945, broke it purchase a Dell X50mid still have it Have had a Palm Treo 600, at&t 8125, treo 750 and now a at&t tilt. I want to uprgrade to a Tilt2 (TP2).
breley
· 2 months ago
Back in 2001 I started with a Palm m100, which I still have, as it came free with my order of Windows XP and other software. I was ignorantly content with it for a few years until I saw someone with an Axim X50v and decided I needed to get one. I then got an X51v, then migrated from a Motorazr phone to a Samsung i760, then acquired an HTC X7501, an ETEN X800, an AT&T Fuze, and then an AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro, then acquired an X50v (having traded my original X51v for a PC). I still rotate all my phones, except my i760 which I sold a while back.
Duuri
· 2 months ago
Siemens IC35 Compaq aero 2130 Axim X5 Palm T3 Siemens SX1 Axim x51 Axim X51v HTC Artemis HTC Touch Pro and now Iphone 3G and E66
Gerard Samija
· 2 months ago
Started for me with a Casio E-115, which was one of the trio of Pocket PC models/brands available for the launch of this new OS - the other two being the iPAQ (then from Compaq, not HP), and the HP Jornada. I needed something to remind me of when to be in my workshop, so as not to leave clients waiting at the door, as my own memory was not so great and my agenda tended to stay at the workbench, not with me when I went out. So I was looking for a Palm actually, as those were all I'd heard about. A lot of reading and some checking in stores told me that Palm had nothing nearly so interesting as a Pocket PC... and then that no Pocket PC was nearly so interesting to me as that Casio. Deliciously high quality screen (65,536 colours compared to the relatively weak media presentation of the other two devices), a CF slot built in for memory, a dialup modem, and a camera, all of which I fully intended to (and later did) use, the best buttons for gaming (though I'd never done that, but so it was told)... And then there were my soft feelings for Casio, since my first really decent calculator was a tiny thing bought in 1976, hardly bigger than a matchbox. Still works today just the same as it did 33 years ago. Cost me $10. So I paid $650 for this new Casio, then lots more for those fancy accessories, and eventually sprung for a 6GB external hard drive for it too which ran just fine and was soon serving as storage for all the pictures and videos shot with that little camera card.
I sold the Casio after about 6 months, in November of 2000. Bought a Casio EG-800. Not such a great choice unfortunately, as its promise was overwhelmed by defective manufacture, and after a year and 5 units in total thanks to Casio's VP's diligent efforts to make good on their warranty, I had to give up on Casio. 'Industrial' just was not in the cards for that thing, nice looking though it was. My rather careful home use was too much for it apparently, as those units died in all sorts of silly ways. One wouldn't even run for 5 minutes before automagically hard resetting itself again and again. Two others had screens which died in weeks from my writing on their screens, though I wrote carefully and always used protectors from Casio. The last one died a bit at a time, finally becoming virtually useless when the CF slot just stopped working.
Next came an iPAQ thanks to Sprite Software of New Zealand, who sent it to me so as to test their Sprite backup software towards installing it in the ROM of the upcoming HP iPAQ line. Then there was a Dell Axim X5, thanks to Chris de Herrera of pocketpcfaq.com (for whom I moderate these past 6 or so years - the site formerly being called CEWindows.net). After that was a Toshiba e800, then an e830, which proved to be the most potent workhorse of all the PPCs I've had the pleasure of using. That e830 is still running today after years of use - just this evening my little boy watched Toy Story2 on it, glitchless and with fine sound though it's a 700MB file, using CORE Player. I don't use it so much after 4 years as I've gone to using PPC phones, but it still sees action as his drawing pad and for other stuff. Glorious screen, dual slots, USB host capacity.... if it had a phone I'd be using it for that too.
So I moved on to phones, starting with an O2 XDA. Neat little brick, very reliable. Sold that last spring and bought an HTC Elfin, which I'm running now with WM6.5 (thanks to dsixda of xdadevelopers), and like very well except for the mere 200MHz processor which kind of bogs things down sometimes, and the speed limitation of the 2.75G radio is a bit bothersome but it's okay for email at least, and the odd bit of web browsing on the go.
I'm thinking the Toshiba TG02 is next if it becomes available here in Canada somehow. Waterproof, and with all the bells and whistles, and a just flat out beautiful wide screen of proper PPC dimensions! I'm so tired of 2.5" screens. Need room to work, and when I watch a movie on a PPC I want at least 4" and loads of pixels. I guess I got spoiled early on by the Casio screens, which except for their dullness out in daylight would still hold up well against most of today's offerings for sheer beauty with images.
Pony99CA
· 2 months ago
My history is written on my Windows CE history page, so I won't reiterate it here. There are even pictures there of Windows CE 1.0 and 2.0 devices if you want to see them.
Steve
raydoan
· 2 months ago
Here is my history:
1. I started in 1999 with a Palm V. At a time when Palm was wildly popular and all we had were monochrome displays! But it was a beautiful device, very thin and a solidly built metal body.
2. I then moved to a my first PocketPC device, the iPAQ 3765. Wow was that a cool device (and expensive!). This was 2001 and PocketPC2002 had just been introduced. What's cool is I still have it and it still works!! I have it on my nightstand right now!!
3. In 2002, I bought my wife a Sony Clie PEG-SJ20, which was a really nice Palm OS device. Clear screen, had a built-in memory car slot, albeit memory stick and just did it's job well for her.
4. In 2003, I decided to put my trusty iPAQ 3765 to pasture and bought the iPAQ 2215. I have to say, this is still one of my all time favorite PDA's. It ran Windows Mobile 2003, had bluetooth, wi-fi, an SD and CD card slot, a user replaceable battery and yet was still a thin and relatively small device!! I also liked that it had a consumer grade IR emitter and was able to control my home theater system with it using the include Nevo Remote software. I sadly sold it one day and to this day regret it.
5. A year later, I purchased a Dell Axim X30 for my wife to replace her Clie. This one came three flavors, a 312mHz model, a 312 with wi-fi and a 624mHz with wifi. I chose the 312 with wifi for my wife. A nice device that did its job well, but frankly, was kind of a blocky looking device. But again, it did its job well.
6. After using the iPAQ2215 for a couple of years, I decided to jump into the smartphone world. I bought a the Audiovox XV6600 (HTC Harrier) on Verizon. Man that is a cool device. It has a slideup keyboard (albeit with chiclet keys), EV-DO, SD card slot and bluetooth. No wi-fi unfortunately like the Cingular version at the time. I still have this device and it still works. The camera was horrific, even for a camera phone and the volume on the speaker was very low. Also, the bluetooth stack was horrible. I couldn't more more than a couple of feet away without getting static!!
7. After a couple of years of the XV6600, I jumped over the newly minted AT&T and bought the AT&T 8525 (HTC Hermes) for 2007. The phone was great, even thought it is a bit thick. The speakerphone was loud, the earpiece was loud and it just plain worked well. I didn't have to reset that phone at all. The keyboard was nice and was just a reliable phone.
8. In the fall of 2007, I quickly jumped from the 8525 to the Tilt. Boy do I love that phone. At that time, it was the perfect device to me with it's tilting screen, large amount of memory and thoughtful layout. The only thing missing was a higher resolution screen. Also, it could have lost a few ounces in weight there. It was a hefty phone.
9. In the fall of 2008, I decided to drop my Tilt to try the BlackBerry Bold. At the time, I thought I wanted to get my work emails on a mobile device and my company only supports BlackBerry unfortunately. The Bold just plain works!! It was better than my Tilt in almost every regards. It's light, has a great screen, battery life is good and has the best keyboard I have ever used on a mobile device.
10. Which brings me to my current device. After a while, I decided getting work emails all the time is over-rated. I was always responding to emails. Plus, my wife has an iPhone 3G that was I was falling in love with. So what did I do? I bought an iPhone 3GS. I love this phone! All the apps are great and it does work extremely well. What don't I like? Well, I can't use my SlingBox over 3G and I wish it did have mult-tasking capabilities. I would also like to see AVRCP bluetooth profiles in there. But for now, this is my current favorite device.
stevenshytle
· 1 month ago
I actually started with a Newton somewhere in 1992-1994, I don't remember. In 1998 I got a Compaq HPC. When it died I bought a Casio e-100. When it died I got a Dell Axim x50 mid when it was released. It won't die. It still hangs around for gps, games, internet, and backup use. I am currently using the Sprint Mogul. I though I was ready for a converged device and while the EVDO has been nice I do miss having a powerful PPC and a phone seperated. Now all I have is the PPC and phone in one and it is not much more powerful than the Axim. Currently I planning on getting the HTC touch pro2.
Felix
· 1 month ago
Palm III Palm Vx beatiful Palm Tungsten C powerful Palm Tungsten E Dell Axim X51V very nice Blackberry Pearl 8130 Backberry Storm 9530 the best so far
whydidnt
· 1 month ago
Well, this is going to be fun. I can't remember the timing, but I own or have owned the following devices, going back at least to 1998--
Philips Nino (the black and white screen one) Palm III Casio E105 Palm i300 (my first phone/pda combo) Compaq iPaq 3605 TMobile Windows PocketPC Phone -- The first PocketPC phone released (I think) Casio E-115 Sony Clie Palm -- can't remember the model number, but it was an early color Palm device Palm V105 (I think that's what it was called - it was the first color Palm - very poor contrast) iMate PDA2K HP iPaq 2215 Dell Axim X5 HP iPaq HW6315 PocketPC Phone Sony Clie UX50 (one of the all time best form factors - I really wish their would have been a comparable WM phone!) Motorola Mpx 200 (I think, was a smart phone, flip style - with just GPRS internet access) Samsung i730 Palm LifeDrive iMate JasJar (HTC Universal) Cingular 2125 WM Smart phone Palm Treo 700P Palm Treo 700W HP iPaq 4705 Dell Axim X50v HTC TyTN HTC Advantage 7500 AT&T Tilt (TyTN II) HP iPaq Travel Companion HX5900 Motorola Q9 Global Nokia N810 Internet Tablet HP iPaq 915 HP iPaq 210 iPhone 3G (16 GB) Blackberry Bold iPhone 3GS (32 GB)
I could probably be retired, living on an island somewhere if I hadn't spent all my $ on these PDA's. I probably forgot one or two, but have experienced almost everything in the PDA world. Don't get me started on handtop or UMPC tiny computers, that's another whole embarrasing list!
Mike
· 1 month ago
I started with a Palm m130, the switched to Windows Mobile using a Toshiba E310. I think the E310 had a great form factory, very solid feeling with the metal housing. My first converged device was the dreaded T-Mobile HP 6315, although I like it the call sound quality was lousy. From there I went with the HTC Wizard until it died a few months ago. Now I'm using a used unlocked AT&T Tilt I picked up on ebay. I thought the Touch Pro2 was going to be my next phone, I didn't mind the price of the device I just didn't like the required data plan commitment.
doog
· 1 month ago
- an Everex A10 (or something like that), a CE 2.0 PsPC - a Diamond Mako (a rebadged Psion Revo) - Psion 5mx - Dell Axim X5 - first smartphone - Moto Q9m
I'll be getting an iPhone shortly after my contract is up in December.
Combo
· 1 month ago
Palm V Dell Axim X5 Glofiish X500 (the best travel companion ever) I figure that I need something called an X50000 now to continue the trend <:o)
tikiman7
· 1 month ago
NEC Handheld (CE) HP Jornada (CE) - 2 HP iPaq 3115 (WM5) HP iPaq 210 (WM5) BlackBerry 7100 Palm 750 (WM6 flash) HP iPaq 614 (WM6) HTC Touch HD (WM6.5 flash) - current device eliminates the need for a phone (phone) and PDA (multimedia)
All Comments
Compaq aero 2130
Axim X5
Palm T3
Siemens SX1
Axim x51
Axim X51v
HTC Artemis
HTC Touch Pro
and now Iphone 3G and E66
I sold the Casio after about 6 months, in November of 2000. Bought a Casio EG-800. Not such a great choice unfortunately, as its promise was overwhelmed by defective manufacture, and after a year and 5 units in total thanks to Casio's VP's diligent efforts to make good on their warranty, I had to give up on Casio. 'Industrial' just was not in the cards for that thing, nice looking though it was. My rather careful home use was too much for it apparently, as those units died in all sorts of silly ways. One wouldn't even run for 5 minutes before automagically hard resetting itself again and again. Two others had screens which died in weeks from my writing on their screens, though I wrote carefully and always used protectors from Casio. The last one died a bit at a time, finally becoming virtually useless when the CF slot just stopped working.
Next came an iPAQ thanks to Sprite Software of New Zealand, who sent it to me so as to test their Sprite backup software towards installing it in the ROM of the upcoming HP iPAQ line. Then there was a Dell Axim X5, thanks to Chris de Herrera of pocketpcfaq.com (for whom I moderate these past 6 or so years - the site formerly being called CEWindows.net). After that was a Toshiba e800, then an e830, which proved to be the most potent workhorse of all the PPCs I've had the pleasure of using. That e830 is still running today after years of use - just this evening my little boy watched Toy Story2 on it, glitchless and with fine sound though it's a 700MB file, using CORE Player. I don't use it so much after 4 years as I've gone to using PPC phones, but it still sees action as his drawing pad and for other stuff. Glorious screen, dual slots, USB host capacity.... if it had a phone I'd be using it for that too.
So I moved on to phones, starting with an O2 XDA. Neat little brick, very reliable. Sold that last spring and bought an HTC Elfin, which I'm running now with WM6.5 (thanks to dsixda of xdadevelopers), and like very well except for the mere 200MHz processor which kind of bogs things down sometimes, and the speed limitation of the 2.75G radio is a bit bothersome but it's okay for email at least, and the odd bit of web browsing on the go.
I'm thinking the Toshiba TG02 is next if it becomes available here in Canada somehow. Waterproof, and with all the bells and whistles, and a just flat out beautiful wide screen of proper PPC dimensions! I'm so tired of 2.5" screens. Need room to work, and when I watch a movie on a PPC I want at least 4" and loads of pixels. I guess I got spoiled early on by the Casio screens, which except for their dullness out in daylight would still hold up well against most of today's offerings for sheer beauty with images.
Steve
1. I started in 1999 with a Palm V. At a time when Palm was wildly popular and all we had were monochrome displays! But it was a beautiful device, very thin and a solidly built metal body.
2. I then moved to a my first PocketPC device, the iPAQ 3765. Wow was that a cool device (and expensive!). This was 2001 and PocketPC2002 had just been introduced. What's cool is I still have it and it still works!! I have it on my nightstand right now!!
3. In 2002, I bought my wife a Sony Clie PEG-SJ20, which was a really nice Palm OS device. Clear screen, had a built-in memory car slot, albeit memory stick and just did it's job well for her.
4. In 2003, I decided to put my trusty iPAQ 3765 to pasture and bought the iPAQ 2215. I have to say, this is still one of my all time favorite PDA's. It ran Windows Mobile 2003, had bluetooth, wi-fi, an SD and CD card slot, a user replaceable battery and yet was still a thin and relatively small device!! I also liked that it had a consumer grade IR emitter and was able to control my home theater system with it using the include Nevo Remote software. I sadly sold it one day and to this day regret it.
5. A year later, I purchased a Dell Axim X30 for my wife to replace her Clie. This one came three flavors, a 312mHz model, a 312 with wi-fi and a 624mHz with wifi. I chose the 312 with wifi for my wife. A nice device that did its job well, but frankly, was kind of a blocky looking device. But again, it did its job well.
6. After using the iPAQ2215 for a couple of years, I decided to jump into the smartphone world. I bought a the Audiovox XV6600 (HTC Harrier) on Verizon. Man that is a cool device. It has a slideup keyboard (albeit with chiclet keys), EV-DO, SD card slot and bluetooth. No wi-fi unfortunately like the Cingular version at the time. I still have this device and it still works. The camera was horrific, even for a camera phone and the volume on the speaker was very low. Also, the bluetooth stack was horrible. I couldn't more more than a couple of feet away without getting static!!
7. After a couple of years of the XV6600, I jumped over the newly minted AT&T and bought the AT&T 8525 (HTC Hermes) for 2007. The phone was great, even thought it is a bit thick. The speakerphone was loud, the earpiece was loud and it just plain worked well. I didn't have to reset that phone at all. The keyboard was nice and was just a reliable phone.
8. In the fall of 2007, I quickly jumped from the 8525 to the Tilt. Boy do I love that phone. At that time, it was the perfect device to me with it's tilting screen, large amount of memory and thoughtful layout. The only thing missing was a higher resolution screen. Also, it could have lost a few ounces in weight there. It was a hefty phone.
9. In the fall of 2008, I decided to drop my Tilt to try the BlackBerry Bold. At the time, I thought I wanted to get my work emails on a mobile device and my company only supports BlackBerry unfortunately. The Bold just plain works!! It was better than my Tilt in almost every regards. It's light, has a great screen, battery life is good and has the best keyboard I have ever used on a mobile device.
10. Which brings me to my current device. After a while, I decided getting work emails all the time is over-rated. I was always responding to emails. Plus, my wife has an iPhone 3G that was I was falling in love with. So what did I do? I bought an iPhone 3GS. I love this phone! All the apps are great and it does work extremely well. What don't I like? Well, I can't use my SlingBox over 3G and I wish it did have mult-tasking capabilities. I would also like to see AVRCP bluetooth profiles in there. But for now, this is my current favorite device.
Palm Vx beatiful
Palm Tungsten C powerful
Palm Tungsten E
Dell Axim X51V very nice
Blackberry Pearl 8130
Backberry Storm 9530 the best so far
Philips Nino (the black and white screen one)
Palm III
Casio E105
Palm i300 (my first phone/pda combo)
Compaq iPaq 3605
TMobile Windows PocketPC Phone -- The first PocketPC phone released (I think)
Casio E-115
Sony Clie Palm -- can't remember the model number, but it was an early color Palm device
Palm V105 (I think that's what it was called - it was the first color Palm - very poor contrast)
iMate PDA2K
HP iPaq 2215
Dell Axim X5
HP iPaq HW6315 PocketPC Phone
Sony Clie UX50 (one of the all time best form factors - I really wish their would have been a comparable WM phone!)
Motorola Mpx 200 (I think, was a smart phone, flip style - with just GPRS internet access)
Samsung i730
Palm LifeDrive
iMate JasJar (HTC Universal)
Cingular 2125 WM Smart phone
Palm Treo 700P
Palm Treo 700W
HP iPaq 4705
Dell Axim X50v
HTC TyTN
HTC Advantage 7500
AT&T Tilt (TyTN II)
HP iPaq Travel Companion HX5900
Motorola Q9 Global
Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
HP iPaq 915
HP iPaq 210
iPhone 3G (16 GB)
Blackberry Bold
iPhone 3GS (32 GB)
I could probably be retired, living on an island somewhere if I hadn't spent all my $ on these PDA's. I probably forgot one or two, but have experienced almost everything in the PDA world. Don't get me started on handtop or UMPC tiny computers, that's another whole embarrasing list!
- a Diamond Mako (a rebadged Psion Revo)
- Psion 5mx
- Dell Axim X5
- first smartphone - Moto Q9m
I'll be getting an iPhone shortly after my contract is up in December.
Dell Axim X5
Glofiish X500 (the best travel companion ever)
I figure that I need something called an X50000 now to continue the trend <:o)
HP Jornada (CE) - 2
HP iPaq 3115 (WM5)
HP iPaq 210 (WM5)
BlackBerry 7100
Palm 750 (WM6 flash)
HP iPaq 614 (WM6)
HTC Touch HD (WM6.5 flash) - current device eliminates the need for a phone (phone) and PDA (multimedia)