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When talking about battery life and general usability, nothing beats PalmOS yet. With weeks of battery life, it just took 3~4 key press/strokes to start jogging
by xjlin0 5y ago
When talking about battery life and general usability, nothing beats PalmOS yet. With weeks of battery life, it just took 3~4 key press/strokes to start jogging down something or checking schedules tomorrow, etc. Nothing on Android or iOS can beat it even without counting passcode clearance.
It was truly a golden age for handhelds. TONs of apps probably because of developer friendly plus the great eco system. I always wonder what would happen if national network coverage and web apps on Palm OS were better.
- warning26 5y agoI loved my Palm device! The one thing I do think modern devices get better is text input. When the iPhone was released, I was skeptical about its soft keyboard, but I was amazed at how much faster I could type on it than I could write with Graffiti. (And I was pretty good at Graffiti -- version 1 of course, not that awful Graffiti 2 trash-tier imposter.)