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In 95 or maybe 96 I had access to a variant HP 200LX with an almost full MS DOS running on it which allowed a Nokia phone to be physically slotted into a modifi
by heisenbit 7y ago
In 95 or maybe 96 I had access to a variant HP 200LX with an almost full MS DOS running on it which allowed a Nokia phone to be physically slotted into a modified display shell turning it into a computer-phone system. It ran a productivity app with contacts and calendar all integrated. It had almost the functionality of the not yet existing Nokia communicator.
The Nokia partnership with HP fell silent when the Communicator was released. Nokia never got much more productivity software running - Symbian slowed them down and the consumer business distracted them. RIM took over the segment for some time, iPhone was released and the rest is history.
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- philpem 7y agoThat'll be the HP OmniGo 700LX - I still have mine. That thing and a Nokia 6110 saw me through college very nicely. Just enough functionality to be useful. The whole HP LX line was really cool and was even more impressive when you factored in that it was an 80186 running MS-DOS. The phone dock, incidentally, was for a Nokia 2110. There's a Nokia Cellular Data Card in a hidden PCMCIA slot in the LX (lower base section if memory serves), with a cable leading up inside the unit to the dock.
- mmjaa 7y agoWhat annoys me is that Creative Labs also had a viable contendor against the iPhone, but killed it right when it seemed like it could have launched and competed. I guess nobody wanted to go up against Google and Android in one corner and Apple and iOS in the other. Yet, PlaszmaOS could have been a real boon in the industry - especially if they'd licensed it off to all the Asian clone makers. It could've slowed Android, anyway, imho .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zii_EGG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zii_EGG