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Re: "I loved all my old PalmOS devices. I long for the days of a..."
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.
May 21 · 7 months ago
"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.
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.