Enjoyed the video

Man, the palm pilot brings back so many childhood memories! Love these videos!

When I was a kid in the early 2000's I've won the Palm Vx on an online auction for laughably cheap like 10$ maybe and I was actually using it at school to take notes, I've had a terrible hard to read and slow handwriting and couldn't keep up with making notes by pen in a notebook but I got really proficient with the Graffiti on the Vx and I was allowed to use it to take notes instead on it, even better later on I got a portable foldable keyboard for it, the only problem was it couldn't really do drawings and it was very much a "Notepad" like app so I couldn't use it for everything like math for example but took most written notes on it, I remember personally being really fond of it even tho it was already at the time getting kinda obsolete

This is a very rare jewel of a video.

Wonderful Industrial Design. The Palm V, leather cover, and base are so luxurious The Palm V feels great in the hand. I don't think the iPhones ever came close.

That's a great looking Vx. I had a V for a few years from 1999 to early 2003 after which I switched to Sony CLIE devices. It was so slim and compact I carried it around everywhere! A company called OmniSky came out with a cellular data packet sled in 2000 and I was able to get a taste of wireless internet... though it was slow and coverage was limited to metropolitan areas. I sometimes miss those days when computing power in your pocket was still relatively new.

The jewel of KZfaq reviews!

A few months after buying the Zire 71, I walked into a local Cashies and found a Palm Vx sitting there in box with the deluxe case for $75! I was blown away, and bought it immediately. I spent many lunch breaks transferring programs between the 71 and the Vx via IR, marveling at how well the technology worked. I would use the 71 for my every day stuff (documents, games, music etc), and I used the Vx for my onsite work for note taking and drawings for layouts and such (I worked as an event photographer). And naturally, I could beam those notes back to my 71, or visa versa. I still have that Vx, but again, it being somewhat inaccessible in a storage unit... I fear the internal battery will need replacing.

Love the effort you've gone to make this so well produced!

My dad had a few Palms when I was growing up, and when he upgraded, I got the old one. The Palm V felt like magic, even to a 10 year old. The handwriting recognition worked so well that it really was like writing on paper. I honestly think we might be better off if we were to split phones back into separate devices, like an mp3 player, a PDA for organizing your life, a camera, and a plain cell phone just for calls and texts. I constantly wonder about getting an old Palm V and trying to run my life with it. If i could find a way to access all the online stuff i need for work, i might actually try it.

I was using my Palm T|X in 2007 and possibly right up until iPhone 4 in 2010. I used it today to retrieve some contact info and go down memory lane. Nice video.

thank you so much for making such a passionate video! I'm going through popular science magazines from the 2000s and searched up the palm vx from an ad, and here I am.

It was an amazing decade of inventions and discoveries!

love the end scene, looks cool with the cars in the background

As a 90s kid, this gives me weird nostalgia willies. So much forgotten technology.

Sometimes I miss the Palm days. The 3Com Palm V was my second Palm after the US Robotics Palm Pilot Pro. I loved using it, even more so, because I was given it, being a 3Com employee at the time. I pretty much used it to death. So I followed it by a Sony CLIE, then a T5, and eventually, a Centro. I was enthused about Palm WebOS, but that platform died before I even had a chance to look at it. I can't help think that the lack of legacy support contributed to its eventual downfall. Now I have a Palm emulator on my Android device…

Great video! I’ve a Palm Vx in much need of repair I’ve just been put of prying it apart! Thanks for the shoutout!

I also had one of these. enjoyed this very much! thankyou!

This was a great video. Thanks for the nostalgia!

Extremely classic, I wish I still had our family's original Vx but I'll settle for the many others that I have. I still do have my first Palm, a IIIe. The V/Vx was definitely the Palm to have back then, Handspring made quite a splash with their Visor Edge. And ofc Palm reused this form factor with the m500 series but they used screws instead of glue. They were also excellent. I'd suggest putting mathlib in ROM since so many applications rely on it, I also like using Launcher III on Palm devices running 4.1 or under, check it out. Idk why but I just loved using my Palm so much through the years, I have more than 10Gb of software for it and have amassed quite a collection, I love seeing more videos about it!

I loved my Vx. During university I took notes with it using a foldable keyboard. The battery life was stellar compared to laptops back then. Bu my favourite memory is using AvantGo to sync news to the Vx and read them during the course of the day. I think I could sync NYT, wired and other web sites.

I remember around 2008 or 2009 I used a palm color with Bluetooth and mp3 capabilities and would use it with my Sprint 3g flip phone as a modem would access the internet that way when I was homeless in Chicago

Outstanding video - thanks!

Love this ep. The beat up martin got a good chuckle out of me.

Very well put together video, love it

Nice video. I love old stuffs. 😁

Such good content. Thanks it's appreciated.

Thanks, I will put on my calendar to change battery in a V that I inherited:)

I remember the Palm V very well - the build quality was really nice, except for that the stylus slot on the right was very tight, making it hard to remove the stylus. Great video - really brought back memories. I hope the patch on your left thumb wasn't from the blade used to remove the glue 😉

I miss my palm III it used AAA batteries. The handwriting and the calendar app are par excellance. I also had a great tool for decoding cisco passwords from their routers.

I am old enough to remember only execs get the Palm V.. Palm III for the rest of us

Saw this vid a while ago and when recently a v and vx popped up i jumped at them! Both are mint came with one hard and one soft case and cradle! 22 freedom bucks for both and good addition to my bunch of ipaqs lol

A quick reminder for the battery refurbishment: whenever you can, you should use the original BMS board from the original battery, in case the device needs the original board to charge the battery as intended.

I looked up KZfaq only to be sure i wasn't damaging my m515 which i haven't used/charged for more than 15 years ! This is the same reason why i tore it down. The EXPERIENCE of the 2000s !

love the old palm line of devices. i used to have one long ago but it never turned on and never got to fixing it. not sure what happened to it wish i saved it

I had one just like this. 33mhz cpu, I remember being a bit envious of the color model. But that little palm had a lot of functionality even with non multi tasking OS. Best of all the battery would last months on a charge. I then got the z71 or whatever the color one with a camera was. Last one for me was the treo 650, beast of a device. Not many proly remember, but Sony made their Clio line of Palm based devices and they were more multimedia flavored. Sony used their own, unique configurations and I always wanted one of the higher end, mps3 ones. But the prices were always worse so I always emded up with Palm devices.

Nice Vid, please more Network Palm Vids, thanks

Love my Vx

Nice work! Just bought a Vx from eBay with the Magellan GPS Companion, which I’m hoping to utilise for some eccentric map or GPS purposes. Also comes with a keyboard and some other goodies. That glue packaging is hilarious!

Great video! I love the Palm V but have given up on buying them as they all seem to come with digitzer drift now. There's a utility to recalibrate every time the Palm is turned on but it's no use when the screen loses focus within seconds! The m500 series is more reliable in that respect (and easier to replace the battery.)

Nice job with the Lipo replacement battery. Wondering what the approach would be with those plastic block style removable batteries you find on the 3310 etc. Nintendo DS Lite uses such a battery block, and I was wondering what possibilities exist for this hardware when aftermarket disappears. Although, having searched just now, there seem to be endless aftermarket options for NDSL.

For anyone wishing to glue their Palm back together, use either double sided Android tablet tape or chloroprene glue (the yellow stinky stuff used for shoes & counter tops)

i really liked mine

There is a driver you can install under Win98, to be able to read any kind of USB mass storage device. So it is much easier to copy files onto the Toshiba laptop.

The backlit screen is what made this thing civilized. Without it the screen looked so ugly to me, not to mention unreadable. Never mind that there was nothing else quite like the Palm before. It's like the song says, "sometimes, bad is bad" until you start putting real usability into it, and that started with the backlight.

I worked at the factory in Salt lake City, I got a Palm V with employee discount... Six or seven months of playing asteroids on it blew out the buttons on the bottom, I mentioned it to somebody at the factory though and they offered to just take it back into the factory floor swap out the plastic pad and run it through the glue machine again... Worked out for me but I'm not a big fan of using glue everywhere...

Hello I would like some information. Which cable do you use to connect it to the PC? I don't think a USB ... I can't understand from the video. also syncs with Office?

How does the screen compare with a Palm m125 screen? Or, are they basically the same? I use my m125 for ereading. Works great outdoors or in daylight, but poor in bad lighting.

Palm were cool , but the Psion pda were super cool😮

joao sempre quis um palmtop pena q pararao de fabrica podia volga igual nokoa 3310,tm como instalar winds

I found this after repairing my own Palm V, I'm interested in knowing that the name is of the utility that unlocks the home screen colour depths and where I can find it.

Is there any modern day use for this device since we keep our schedule and address book on our phones?

I just got a Palm V with terrible digitizer drift. A few days after calibration, I can’t even reach the menu to reset the digitizer. Is that a function of battery voltage dropping?

I have bought a Palm Tungsten E2 for 3 euros at a local flea market. But the touchscreen is not responding to any touch. I wonder why?? Can I fix that at home? Or should I try to get another screen? Or maybe another non-working device maybe?

Can you provide info on battery? Where to acquire this exact one?

I owned the original palm pilot and many upgrades after that... lol I had the palm v and then a m505 and then the titanium... then treo phones... I was a fanboy

I still have one. Is it still necessary to use it if I have a smartphone?

i think i have one of those some where, but i have my sony clie nv70 right here chilling

0:52 why did you randomly write 'eat up Martha'? What is the significance of this??

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So E-6000 glue wasnt good enough they had to make B-7000?

Mad fans around the world. I usually transfer a few ml into a syringe and use that with a blunt needle to apply it.

The cpu that it runs on called DragonBall EZ, just a energy efficient version of motorola 68k core

Tnx for video mate

o nice

V palm has 6 leaves and the orange dot is in the middle of the V palm

I remember my elementary teacher using one of these, I assume it was paid for by the school

G L O V E

Late 1990s history.

Does it play DOOM. ?😅 Great video.

What we need is a dumb phone with Palm OS, light and efficient, with an e-ink display

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So many similarities between this & 1st iPhone. Home screen layout look strikingly identical. Steve tried to make us believe entire Mac Os was running Ning on it instead of a very striped down version. Even today in 2023 one can not run full mac os apps on iPhone nor ipads.

Always remove old glue and see how the cover fits the case. Carefully bend back the deformities made by forcefull removing. Then apply the best selling Europe and America.

The first successful? I guess Psion weren't a thing then ;)

those were better times

‘Eat up Martha?’ What the?!!..

I never really liked the appearance of the V that much. The m500 was everything that the V should've been, and a far more refreshing product overall.

it should be Eat up Martha , no ?

El problema de la batería! En cambio, con mi Palmot HP 200 LX de 4 MB RAM que uso desde 1998 hasta el día de hoy (ajedrez, hojas de cálculo Lotus 1-2-3 que luego convierto a Excel, base de datos, apuntador, despertador, calculadora financiera, matemáticas Derive, BASIC y muchas otras aplicaciones DOS ... etc. ..etc... etc..) jamás padecí el problema de batería pues trabaja hasta dos o tres meses seguidos con sólo dos baterías AA, alcalinas o recargables.... de modo que, insisto, es mucho mejor (más eficaz..... es decir, capaz de sobrevivir durante muchos años más....) o acaso el mejor computador de mano (PALMTOP) fabricado hasta hoy.... ah, es que también fue producido en versiones de distintos idiomas (inglés, por supuesto, español, el mío, francés, alemán....) lo cual lo hizo más cosmopolita y universal... En fin... De todos modos, mágnífico, excelente video, muy inspirador, y que nos permite apreciar mejor tales variantes intermedias entre las calculadoras, los asistentes, los computadores y los actuales smartphones, teléfonos celulares que se han impuesto de modo tan contundente. Muchas, muchísimas gracias y saludos! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX

Why would you after destroying your other Palm v take apart the X? Seems a tad foolish to me

I randomly won one of these, whilst at a nightclub one year, it was a promotion from a cigarette company called 555 it’s the only thing I have ever won it’s was good for the day but doomed from the start