> The "real internet" as well, since PDAs kinda surfed a different... protocol. I forget exactly, but it wasn't HTML, even if it was served over HTTP. Some... f

> The "real internet" as well, since PDAs kinda surfed a different... protocol. I forget exactly, but it wasn't HTML, even if it was served over HTTP. Some... format that died a long time ago. This was actually only the case for feature phones. PDAs, at least those running PalmOS (like the Treo) could surf the real internet. I still have a Palm TX hanging around and the biggest problem is not the protocols themselves - it could access GMail just fine with the default mail app, and Blazer supports HTML just fine (if a subset that made sense on PDAs in 2005) - but connecting to WiFi. It supports just WEP and WPA-PSK, or WPA2 Enterprise, and it doesn't work with my home router.