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Photos: Ten years of Palm handhelds

By CNET.com.au on 28 March 2006

Tags: computing | decade | gallery | handheld | image | mobile | palm | pda | photos | pilot

It's been a decade since Palm unveiled the Pilot 1000, which made mobile computing simple and affordable.

Photos: 10 years of Palm handhelds
Believe it or not, it's been 10 years since Palm launched its first handhelds. The company has come a long way since then, and it's been an action-packed decade of operating-system and software developments, partnerships, speed bumps and, of course, product launches.

CNET News.com invites you to take a trip down memory lane to witness the gradual modernisation of Palm's PDAs over time. This group represents some of the company's milestones and highlights -- and heck, it's fun to compare today's sleek handhelds with old clunkers.

The PalmPilot 1000 and 5000 debuted in 1996 with 128K of memory, a 16MHz DragonBall processor, the Palm OS 1.0 and a display with a resolution of 160 pixels by 160 pixels. Palm shipped one million PalmPilots within 18 months, but the "Pilot" moniker was eventually dropped from the device's name for legal reasons.

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hqpl
31/03/2006 04:22 PM

I believe I have one of the first Palm Pilots sold- purchased after reading about it in the United Airways magazine on the way to the US. I called on several computer stores USComp, Circuit City etc, all said they were not in stock, until a Circuit City in LA called me the day I was leaving and I bought it. It was very reliable until it gave up in 2002. I have had two since, but they do not last as well as the first. K.H Sorry I can't find my user name in my access codes, but it may be as entered

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