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I like collecting old 2000s handhelds. PDAs and the likes! Even daily driving a real beauty, a Sony CliΓ© PEG-UX50 (catchy name as always, Sony!)
This is so cool! I love watching videos of old handhelds of all kinds. Are you in any lemmy specific communities for the retro ones?
I think there's one for old handhelds, but if it's there bugger all happens since there's barely any folks doing much with these lol.
I found some reel son instagram of all places where people were messing around with restoring old PDA's and other kinds of older tech from the early 2000's. Vaporwave got popular and I think it caused more people to be interested in tech from that time.
Cool! I loved my Palm PDA back in the day, but mine wasn't nearly as fancy as that.
LGR did an episode on an HP PDA he had in college, and it inspired me to run out to eBay and bought something I always wanted at the time but never sprung for: A Palm m100. The ecosystem for it is completely dead and it's almost unusable, but you know what? The seamless flexibility that the built-in productivity apps work together--the way you can put a note with a checklist in it in a reminder and it just works--My modern day Samsung has both Google and Samsung software, and neither one did it as well.
Oh man, those thumb wheels are my jam.
Does it click? Please tell me it clicks.
There's a tactile click to it, yeh! Doesn't make a sound but having that tactile sensation is nice.
I lusted after the top end Clies with the OLED screens. I had a T665C Clie, a Treo650, and countless pocket PC models including the HTC ultimate (Imate JasJar technically) and several others before android and the Iphone came around.