The thing that swayed me to windows was the total integration. Palm had better hardware, but the Windows CE devices had better software.

I remember going to my local computer store the stocked the full range of palms, handspring, hp, Sony, palm and handheld PCs, then the pocket PCs which followed later, more exciting than any android or apple phones, I recall the palm had a bucket load of software vs windows ce those were the times

Boo! You're clearly Palm biased haha. It might be worth pointing out about the clarity of the displays, is that the Palm only has a black and white screen where as the Nino has 4 shades of grey. That might be seen as a plus for the Nino but agreed, compared to black and white it does look a bit less vivid. Another great video! Keep 'em coming!

Thanks for the video!

Nice video! Would you consider talking about Palm OS 6 Cobalt? There's not that much info on that unreleased OS version...

Oh man. I really miss that glowing backlight on monochrome screens! Thanks for making this comparison video. Love these devices in their own right. The thing about the apps is similar to the modern day Android vs Windows Mobile... Windows just lacks the apps to make their devices attractive :( That's the advantage that Palm had back then and the OS is definitely faster and lighter.

Younger people I meet are often surprised that as a child growing up in the 90s that it was even possible that I had something in my pocket that could do audio/images/ebooks and email/internet . They assume there was nothing prior to the iPhone🙄 I had music, image files, PDFs and .LIT Ebooks and video files of certain formats. Only Windows CE gave you the ultimate level of usability. Psion's/Palm etc were good, but limited vs CE. The mind**** for the youngsters is explaining that surfing the net involved infrared the phone/pda then dialling up to a line of less than 10kb/s, being charged for the length of the call rather than by data🤯

Maybe for the early devices, but later... I bought my palm in 2004 and 2 years later switched to PocketPc and never looked back. Sure, i would like to see your take on later devices.

You should check out the Casio Pocket Viewer series of devices and compare them to Palm. My first touchscreen PDA was a PV-100, so they have a special place in my heart. I later bought a PV-S400Plus, which has more memory, higher resolution, and support for third party applications. Both of them are proudly on display in my living room 😃

Can you do a comparison of these to a Psion 5, which was out by this point? I never understood why anyone would want either of these compared to the Series 5.

Won't you sell some of your older devices? :-D

Is there any chance to update or hack the operating system of palm because of the calendars problem? It ends in 2031? Help! I would like to use my palm m500 as long as I want ;)