I loved all my old PalmOS devices. I long for the days of a simple fast set of utilities to carry around. I would love to carry a device which is a combination of a dumb flip phone and a palm pilot.

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🐵 cquenelle

2023-05-18 · 1 year ago · 👍 kelbot, shtirlic

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♊️ shtirlic · 2023-05-18 at 05:43:

Main benefit of PalmOS is instant open every app, if you compare to current devices it's full degradation of software enginirieing

🐵 cquenelle [OP] · 2023-05-19 at 01:54:

@shtirlic Yes! Instant on. People don't even use the term any more because it's fundamentally not how the internet works, and smart phones are all about the internet.

♊️ shtirlic · 2023-05-21 at 03:46:

It's also funny that in current Android/iOS devices you have all the tools to prefetch and cache the data before the user actually opens the app and still nobody cares. When you are opening the app => it downloads bunch of startup and update data until you have actual functionality.

🚀 xoagray · 2023-08-08 at 09:06:

"A device that's a combination of a dumb flip phone and a palm pilot". The Tréo. I used to have one of those and it was exactly this. Weather or not you could still use one with your current carrier is debaitable as I think they were all 2G devices, but it would be cool if we had something like them today that suppported 4/5G.