Creeva’s World 2.0

I wrote yes­ter­day about try­ing to find a solu­tion to turn my Palm TX into a blue­tooth file server.   So far no answers, but I wanted to record my his­tory with Palm OS.  Palm soft­ware has been part of my life for over nine years now, through a total of 3 dif­fer­ent devices I have had a long his­tory of try­ing to make it work and do what I wanted it to do.   I didn’t even­tu­ally reach Palm nir­vana until the TX, but I made due in one way or the other.

My first Palm based device was the Hand­spring Visor Deluxe, which I got at Best Buy in 2000.   While Hand­spring wasn’t owned by Palm at this time, it was the supe­rior device.  It had a licensed Palm OS and it was expand­able.   It had more mem­ory and fea­tures, that was the sell­ing point for me.   I never actu­ally bought any of the mod­ules (I wanted the Eth­er­net jack one), but when I pur­chased it I thought i would.    It was great for my train com­mute at the time and I fin­ished quite a few e-books by using this device.    I synced my out­look, and wrote e-mails offline and synced them when I got to the office.   It used triple A bat­ter­ies and would last a week or two before they needed charged (mind you I used this thing all the time.

My sec­ond palm was from the Zire line, I think it was the Zire 31, but I’m not going to go hunt­ing through boxes to find out for sure.   The expand­abil­ity of an SD card slot was great for me, I used to watch movies on this and once again synced my con­tacts and e-mail for offline work.   This was my sub­sti­tute for an Ipod, so it was my all around media player and busi­ness like gam­ing machine when I was consulting.

The Palm TX was my final Palm device.   The main sell­ing points for me were wifi and blue­tooth access.   I used this a bit dur­ing my final ruin in con­sult­ing.   I used this and the Zire as uni­ver­sal remotes, but other then an e-mail machine it wasn’t much use.   The tech­nol­ogy wasn’t keep­ing up with my activ­i­ties.   It was a great machine and will always have a place in my heart, but I replaced it with my N810 and I’m not look­ing back.

Over the years I’ve played with lit­er­ally thou­sands of palm titles, some great, some not so great.   It was always an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence for me.  While the Palm Pre has piqued my inter­est, I’m not sure I’ll go with it.  I still like my phone to be a good phone and would rather have a sec­ondary device for every­thing else.  I also know I’m in the minor­ity for this.

Palm OS — RIP — you were a great friend, and a great expe­ri­ence.  You will be missed.