Reliving Microsoft's 2002 PDA Experience! (ft. DOOM)

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Today we're traveling 20 years into the past to explore a Toshiba PDA that runs Microsoft Pocket PC 2002.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
1:19 - Pocket PC vs Windows Mobile
2:05 - Pricing and Specs
2:57 - Design & Hardware
4:29 - Manuals & Documentation
7:00 - The Software
23:03 - DOOM
26:28 - Outro
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@JoCaTen Жыл бұрын

Gotta love old tech. There's a certain charm that makes you want one despite they're obsolete

@SnowBunneh Жыл бұрын

Same. I would love playing Solitaire while waiting to board a plane

@Ferrari255GTO Жыл бұрын

I have absolutely no use for it, but i would love to have a Commodore 64 or another system of the same type. They're really cool. Just finding a broken one would make a cool show piece tbh

@theunreal_TOEBEANS Жыл бұрын

True, and 100th like.

@tifawockhardt Жыл бұрын

@@Ferrari255GTO it's just the look and feel of the time that modern rgb filled glass side panel computers will never capture

@scenic7pr Жыл бұрын

I have one of these, I play Age of Empires on it. A TON of maps are available for it

@SnowBunneh Жыл бұрын

This is giving me a glimpse of what the fast-paced business person of the early 2000s life was like. I can smell the coffee, airport business class, client dinners and boardroom meetings already

@SkelitonLord227 Жыл бұрын

It's... Not any different lmao

@robsquared2 Жыл бұрын

I remember having an iPaq h2215 as a teenager because I was a nerd.

@TheCoolDave Жыл бұрын

@@SkelitonLord227 Nope, it's much of the same thing with the newest iPhone or Android device....

@thedopplereffect00 Жыл бұрын

Most of the people that owned these were nerds with very empty schedules.

@belstar1128 Жыл бұрын

Is it just me or did companies go out of business faster back then there where so many huge companies that made one or 2 mistakes and where gone in a few years but todays corporations seem to be able to get away with much more.

@joshpasstheaxe Жыл бұрын

My father purchased a pocket pc in my youth, and I remember them being soooooo pricey when he decided to buy one. He bought one, and then the same night we went to a restaurant next to the bestbuy. He opted not to get a warranty, and slipped it in his back pocket just sitting on the soft seat of the truck was enough to crack the screen. He never even got to use it. You can only imagine the anger thru that meal. Not a word was spoken lol

@lerodkazuko4391 Жыл бұрын

that was the major downfall of those devices back then, because of how the touch screen works, once its cracked its done, you cannot use it at all. anything that uses a stylus for touchscreen purposes is a dual layer screen, you have the glass a very thin gap between then the plastic layer on top. you press on the plastic payer and it determines the position of where it is being touched, and compared to the multi touch we have today, those screens are only capable of one touch input at the same time. take the Nintendo DS line for example. that is a bit more modern look at the technology but still worked the same as these devices, and they are much cheaper to make too.

@richardsequeirateixeira Жыл бұрын

Yes that exact thing happened. Except I slammed the car door on my sweater. It was horrible ordeal!

@fecalfetus7902 Жыл бұрын

I remember i was at a family reunion, and had mine in my cargo pocket in a case. and i was on a playground spinning my little cousins on one of those spinning wheels of death. I jumped on and one of the bars smacked me in the leg and destroyed my iPAQ.

@richardsequeirateixeira Жыл бұрын

@@fecalfetus7902 then you are cussing at the entire world and feeling like crap for days.

@jetcheneau5811 Жыл бұрын

it's funny because smartphones of today are just as fragile lmao least the screen is still usable after a crack

@k6kaysix675 Жыл бұрын

As a kid I remember being completely mind blown by how such small devices had 'Windows' running on them, I think at my old school just before I left the teachers started using them to take the class registers too which seemed so futuristic at the time - interesting how for the first year or so the iPhone was essentially just a glorified version of these too until the App Store came along and literally changed everything overnight

@LitNews Жыл бұрын

The first iPhone was a different beast to these: it actually worked. These things were essentially expensive executive toys: they were terribly slow, clunky and limited.

@HistoryandReviews Жыл бұрын

Stop saying essentially

@LitNews Жыл бұрын

@@HistoryandReviews Please use full stops. Thanks.

@gjfkhvjzjsxbq Жыл бұрын

@@LitNews I bet you've never used these devices before

@josephkowalczyk7459 Жыл бұрын

these things and palm pilots had tons of apps you could get too

@NoahClevinger Жыл бұрын

I never got to use a PDA when they were popular, but I can definitely appreciate the technology! It seemed pretty revolutionary for its time.

@fender7083 Жыл бұрын

I had one as a kid and at one point had 11, salvaged from thrift stores

@belstar1128 Жыл бұрын

Yea same here for some reason i thought they where way less advanced i must have been thinking of my very bad experience when someone showed me one from the 1990s with a monochrome screen and the pc syncing would always crash or take forever but these early 2000s versions look like they could have been very fun for me if i had my current levels of knowledge i could download stuff from the internet and then play it back on this thing in school even very low quality multimedia is better than just sitting still looking at clouds until the bus shows up or reading the same book over and over.

@steventechno Жыл бұрын

I had one as a Teen. Palm Zire 71. Found it in a pawnshop sometime 2005/06. I loved it. Used it as my camera mostly. My PSP served as my main media player at the time, even though the PDA had MP3 capabilities.Just the fact that it had a camera that even recorded video at that time was just awesome at the time for me. Even though it had potato quality. lmao

@philtkaswahl2124 Жыл бұрын

I remember when early 2000s cartoons had these for characters who were portrayed as "techie." Like Tucker in _Danny Phantom_ who always had his PDA with him, or Wade who invented the glorified PDA that was the Kimmunicator on _Kim Possible._

@Just.A.T-Rex Жыл бұрын

It was in another Disney show zenon girl of the 21st century first I believe More of a tablet style if my old mind remembers right

@jendorei Жыл бұрын

That was also a thing in a few kids’ books that I’ve read

@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын

Star Fox Adventures features a super futuristic hologram "PDA" 😆

@patrickrostker6693 Жыл бұрын

WOW, what a public display of affection for nostalgic 2000s tech, well done!

@CCaribou Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there

@cccp115 10 ай бұрын

AGREED!!! He's got quite the strong PDA for this type of tech.. VERY COMPASSIONATE!!!!!

@shadows9001 Жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to work for a company where I could get these dirt cheap back in the day (ex customer returns) I had (and still have) the Toshiba E800 with an ibm micro drive used it for watching AVIs of south park , low bitrate mp3s, internet browsing and emulators and yes doom. They were the days lol

@SilverXTikal Жыл бұрын

I had a teacher in 4th grade (2004) that knew I collected cellphones. The day he came to my class and gave me his “old” ipaq I nearly shat myself in front of everyone! Went from B&W bar phones and a few B&W flip phones to that thing. Blew my mind what that thing could do!

@lordmmx1303 Жыл бұрын

i remember having a PDA back in 2006 just because it was free. and had app called eXPerience on it, which made Windows XP like desktop with start menu

@aaronbrown4275 Жыл бұрын

Having lived through this time as an IT tech, I both understand why these sorts of devices existed and am SO SO SO glad that they died when smartphones appeared. In a vacuum they worked...fine. But trying to get them to play nice in the most common business computing environments of the time was a nightmare.

@bartbenitez1540 Жыл бұрын

Boy oh boy I remember my E755 I had back in the day. Basically this thing only thicker, with wifi, an SD and CF card slot, and a faster processor...with a removable battery that could be replaced with a very large extended battery.

@Bruinsfan2007 Жыл бұрын

I love reliving these old devices, they bring back so many memories. This channel really does take me back, thanks to you and those gracious enough to donate to the channel so we can relive some of these devices.

@moderneducationalstandard Жыл бұрын

The 80s-2000s were fun because almost nothing technology related was standardized. It was always a surprise to see a new, weird, unique device and you were always a early adopter of a device you didn't knew if it will have a upgrade the following year. Also, some technology had some very good features that today are missing.

@hufficag Жыл бұрын

I got a Windows CE device in 1999. I'm an engineer who's teaching in China. You can't get on the subway without your smartphone to show your 48 hour PCR test and health code. I keep saying to those peasants at the subway security gate that only early adopters like me having internet connected technology in their pockets. You can't expect normal people to have it because you're all backwards and low-tech in China.

@brytonrobinson Жыл бұрын

When I was in the second grade, my entire school received some of these PDA’s for every classroom. I only remember using them once and I then watched them collect dust in the back of the classroom the rest of the school year.

@mattbennett1557 Жыл бұрын

This video just unlocked some memories. I had this exact Pocket PC in middle school- I bought it used for $50 from my dad’s business partner circa 2004-2005. That year for Christmas I got a foldable IR keyboard to work on essays and homework when I was stuck at school late for extra curriculars. (Pretty sure I used it like twice.) I even found a media player app with an iPod skin and a (somewhat) functional touchscreen click wheel. Fun times with that thing. I need to look for it next time I’m at my parents’ house 😂

@lolcat Жыл бұрын

My dad had one with what looked like windows xp. loved drawing with the stylus. I wish I could remember what model it was though. Might've actually been windows mobile

@christaylorakaskunk Жыл бұрын

I owned that exact device back then. Brings back memories.

@gtavesanat Жыл бұрын

I wonder this device how to connect the internet ?

@silvanpaul2531 Жыл бұрын

damn this brings me back when i used to own a qtek 9100 (later rebranded as a HTC 9100). I loved the windows mobile operating system. i remember that i used to calculate how many apps/games i could install. 2mb apps where concidered HUUUGE you'd rather install apps not bigger then 100kb which is insane if you compare it to app sizes from today.

@UltraPoyoColt Жыл бұрын

A little pocket pc from 2002? Sweet!! Always love seeing you cover this type of tech and all different kinds

@TheWh1teL1ght Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ashley! :)

@BionicTenshi96 Жыл бұрын

I remember wanting one of these PDAs so hard back then, i found them mesmerizing despite their clear limitations. Now we've got smartphones that can do much more and better things PDAs could and we take that stuff for granted.

@RetroGamerOG_ Жыл бұрын

Nice I like doom and pdas

@JeffCD77 Жыл бұрын

I bought a Dell Axim back in 2001-2002. I was so excited when I got it. It was during my first real job out of college. My co-workers thought I was a dork for sure. I still have it, all the cables, the original box and manuals. Brings back lots of memories.

@hufficag Жыл бұрын

I still say anybody who has a smartphone should be a called a dork. Because in the past people were against me for having a pocket computing device. Now they're against me for NOT HAVING a pocket computing device. It's like you must conform or risk being called a dork.

@turolretar Ай бұрын

Let’s see Paul Allen’s PDA

@zandercruz3487 Жыл бұрын

I still have my HP iPAQ HX2490B, and I absolutely miss using it! for the time it was made, it felt like I could do almost anything with it. I even shoehorned Windows Mobile 6.5 on it and ran some pretty useful "apps" on it too. It was what portable devices were meant to do, be, and what they should have stayed as.

@lotfibenhammou916 Жыл бұрын

I remember that my dad had a similar PDA than this one (Compaq iPAQ H3975), these were ahead of their times, especially with the touch screen. But the speaker was way better than the one on this video.

@Eric-dh5pf Жыл бұрын

this brings back a lot of memories... i used to have one WM pda as an electronic dictionary for school and an emulator for games, it run GBA and even PS1 games smoothly ! it was also my MP3 player and video player (had to use another 30 mins to transcode the original 20-min video first, though, LOL)

@aceoyame2619 Жыл бұрын

I ran a genesis emulator at full speed on a phone with the same CPU. I played Phantasy Star 4 all the way through on that thing while on the train. It was weird because my newer phone with a strongARM CPU couldn't run things nearly as well

@faustinuskaryadi6610 Жыл бұрын

Possibly your phone's cpu was the weaker model.

@IMSIDBOSE Жыл бұрын

Midway through the video I realised, how insanely features filled and blazing fast this thing would have been back then! 👌🏻

@eyeflaps Жыл бұрын

I still think that instead of calling smartphones "smartphones" I think they should have called them PDAs with phone capabilities. Smartphones are basically PDAs with a cell phone app installed. It's kind of weird to call them a phone when it does so much more.

@robertgast5953 Жыл бұрын

i bought an ipaq3650 when i was in high school it had ppc2000. i actually worked at a computer store so i got a bit of a deal but it played that version of doom just fine, i bought it mostly for ppc quake which only ran about 8fps lol

@Martronic Жыл бұрын

OMG windows ppc and ce 6.... THE MEMORIES!! I was obsessed with these in middle school

@blainepalmerza Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, Michael!

@Windows-sx1br Жыл бұрын

Two videos in a week good job Michael!

@WindowsOnWindows Жыл бұрын

Interesting how they swapped the locations of the Start button and menu bar for mobile (well, not exactly, but you know what I mean, lol)...

@RKingis Жыл бұрын

WinCE was designed to make it almost seamless learning it. Then Mobile happened.

@cujoedaman Жыл бұрын

This is bringing back dreaded memories of when I started working at Kohl's. Every scanning device we used had a version of Windows Mobile (or whatever it was called from 2009-2016) and they were HORRID. The first device we had wasn't so bad, but it was when we got new devices later on (a total of three through those years), the problems just kept getting worse and worse. They got so bad, in fact, that you couldn't do basic functions without apps crashing all the time and even random reboots. They would also sometimes reset themselves and you had to re-flash the devices to set them back to being usable in the store. All I remember of mobile Windows devices (especially phones) were just about bad the interface was. I'm a Windows user for life, but when it comes to mobile devices, give me iOS or Android any day.

@hufficag Жыл бұрын

I remember my uncle developing those scanning handheld systems in the year 2000, programming in Windows for some big company, doing com dcom.

@ac3d657 Жыл бұрын

Somehow i played this video and it was playing in the background but I was lulled by your calming voice

@pgtmr2713 Жыл бұрын

I had an Ipaq 2210/2215 400 mhz. I did everything with it. It could play high quality mp3 and a videogame at the same time. I kept looking for the next model at least 600mhz without losing any current features. That never happened, phones got better. But there was still a long wait for those advancements. Then they were here, everywhere.

@theharbingerofconflation Жыл бұрын

I had an HTC xda, loaded with SimCity, Monkey Island and so on. Also came with your obligatory copy of word and excel. Great stuff couldn't be separated from it as a kid

@sonic2000gr Жыл бұрын

I remember playing around with a Compaq back in the day. I kinda liked it.

@BrianWardPlus Жыл бұрын

I've got a similar one and it still works! The e330 with the charging/sync dock. Used it for years. Such a great device in the pre-iPhone era.

@GABPower Жыл бұрын

I had this exact model and bought it close to launch. It didn't have Wifi and was very limited in performance and storage space. I bought a 16MB or 32MB SD card so I could use it mostly as an MP3 player and to play games on the go. Sold it complete in box in the early 2010s for a great price to some guy who thought he was getting somekind of iPod.

@Velo1010 Жыл бұрын

I bought one in 2002. The brand was HP. And I purchased a Palm Pilot for my girlfriend at that time. It was the PDA with a green monochrome display.

@tom611 Жыл бұрын

That was a *very* good idea to remove the battery, as I had a e330 that the battery expanded to the point that it broke the plastic holding the two halves basically *ripping it apart* and it likely broke the screen before then. I had originally blamed the screen breaking on it being kinda under stuff in its soft case and something potentially hitting it, but I had no idea what and how that impact would've translated to the not-that-soft screen cover portion of the case.

@PearComputingDevices Жыл бұрын

I have a Dell pocket pc, next to the last model in fsct. It was awesome when it was new. Way faster then my older HP media connector I bought in like early 2005. I used it easily until like 2012 when I replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy 4G.

@robertmwilliams Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this trip down memory lane. I still own the last generation of the HP Business iPaq as well as a Palm TX (don't get me started on my Newton collection) and one thing that still amazes me is how usable these are. While I know they pale in comparison to the power and versatility of modern smartphones, these were targeted devices. They were not a 'jack of all trades' like modern devices, they were focused on getting business done and being a bridge from mobile work/documents to a PC. Comparing the two platforms however I am amazed at the volume of Palm OS apps that are available and still run on my Palm TX. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for my iPaq. What few programs I can find just don't seem to work on my last generation device. Which is unfortunate as I cannot even use the build in email app to check gmail, which would go a long way to making this a fun and production device.

@phantaski Жыл бұрын

i own a Dell Axim X50 and a HTC HD2, windows mobile is so fun to play around with, i just wish we could find MORE games.

@TheNostalgicFuture Жыл бұрын

How did you know ive been into pocket pcs lately? Theres not many good videos on them, glad to see one from you

@itsdeonlol Жыл бұрын

Today's pocket PC is now a smartphone. It's crazy how tech evolves.

@SudosFTW Жыл бұрын

the battery cutoff was for going on an airplane. restrictions required you to be able to fully turn off the electronics you have with you.

@15bits Жыл бұрын

Yet another great video from my favourite KZfaqr nichael ntd!

@shaneobrien4486 11 ай бұрын

I have one of these and was wondering if I could put some sort of cfw on this. Just for the hell of it. I can't imagine it being useful afterwards. The real reason I commented though is to say this guy sounds so much like Jeff goldblum if he did asmr tech videos! Great video dude

@westfailia Жыл бұрын

i had one of these as a teen because dad's work was obsoleting their old hardware and i played SO MUCH jawbreaker

@rygar8bit2 Жыл бұрын

Seen the Pocket PC version of Doom at Comp USA way back when, always wondered how it played.

@supahmario64fan Жыл бұрын

Love your content!, There's no one like you would do this content again!

@CDRiley Жыл бұрын

Good Video, Nichael! 😉

@bhasitl Жыл бұрын

19:12 The calculator application has additional features judging from the currency icon on the bottom toolbar. Maybe it included a currency converter. Just a recommendation: you can do a video where you sync the PDA to a Windows XP PC using Active Sync

@CodeProfessor Жыл бұрын

Regarding the phone you showed, the one with the hidden sliding keyboard... I had the same device but it was a different brand. I suspect that the hardware was branded under several companies. Mine came from Bell Canada - it was a CDMA phone. That device was so horrible at being a phone... Calls would drop and it would crash all the time. I remember being so gutted when I realized I wasted over 500 Canadian dollars on a brand new device I could not return (due to air time used) and I would have to use it as my daily driver for the next two years. Thanks for the awesome walkthrough!

@EinkOLED Жыл бұрын

It was pretty new and exciting tech back then, a color touchscreen pocket PC with downloadable software onto a CFI memory cartridge. Mine was a HP jornada and carried around with me everywhere. I was 18 back then, an early adopter of the evolution of smartphones. I also owned a Garmin etrex for mobile navigation and a Olympus 3mp digital camera. All common but improved features on smartphones.

@mufidkh Жыл бұрын

Omg. This video remind me that I used to own Toshiba E740. I even bought adapter so my pda can directly connect to vga projector.

@StrafeWasTaken Жыл бұрын

Time travel got here faster than I thought it would!

@shitpostinggang Жыл бұрын

Never expected Pocket PCS to play Doom now

@santumChannelYes Жыл бұрын

to be fair, everything that has a screen can play doom at this point

@RonLaws Жыл бұрын

I had one in 'High school' now i feel old, thanks! Edit: I had a foldable keyboard dock for mine that used the IRDA to send keystrokes to it.

@sburton015 Жыл бұрын

I remember buying a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC PDA back in July of 2000. At that time, I was using Windows 98 second edition on my PC. Also come to think about it is tomorrow will be the 22nd anniversary of Windows ME. Would be nice to do a video of the 22nd anniversary of when Microsoft released Windows ME on September 14th, 2000.

@SectorfiveYT Жыл бұрын

Is there any way to connect a desktop keyboard to that device for writing using an adapter for usb? have you tried connecting a mouse to it?

@magfal Жыл бұрын

I wonder how much better Windows Phone would have done in the market if it had a Windows CE wrapper/emulator for legacy enterprise applications included, a bit like cotulla was able to make or unlock after Windows Phone was almost already dead in the water.

@Martronic Жыл бұрын

The WiFi enabled SD cards! I remember having to futz with the crappy driver support... Also compact flash wifi adapters... It was wild and super fun

@CodeProfessor Жыл бұрын

I once had a Linksys WIP330 wifi candybar-shaped VoIP phone that ran Windows CE. It had no functionality except for the phone calling, sort of like a wifi SPA942. I distinctly remember it being horrible at its one job, being a phone. That being said, I had a Compaq Ipaq decked out with a dual pcmcia card sleeve, a 1GB spinning CF card hard drive, etc... I loved that thing. I could not do anything with it because it was useless. But I remember trying to do things with it and an 802.11b card.

@jakeparkinson8929 Жыл бұрын

Your laugh around 18:50 scared the sh-t out of my half asleep buttt. you sounded somewhere between fnaf jumpscare and mouse squeeling when caught in a trap. thanks for waking me up micheal

@cameronl1859 Жыл бұрын

I bought one of these exact models when I was in 9th grade. I wanted a laptop, but even the 90s era stuff was too expensive at the time. I bought one of these and a fold-out keyboard instead. I quickly found out it was way more limited than a desktop Windows environment, but I loved it still.

@gamer_pc8422 Жыл бұрын

These PDAs are my favorites. I have also an Asus A716 and A620

@orinokonx01 Жыл бұрын

First thing I ever saved up for when I got my first job was a Palm Zire 71. Cost AU$600 new back in 2003. I loved that little device, it was quick and the programs were fun, and the whole experience was quite polished. Eventually I found a second hand Compaq iPAQ 3660 with accessories and that was quite a good experience, too. Definitely more powerful in regards to multitasking, larger screen, etc. Eventually ran Familiar Linux on that iPAQ. Actually, I think it still has it on there... I've got the files before the website died many years ago, too...

@Clumsy_the_24 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the website link on the doom port is the original website or if the domain was sold. I say this because I tried the website and it worked, but didn’t quite look like a website from 2002. Definitely interesting, nonetheless. Edit: upon closer inspection, the first sign of DOOM4CE that is archived online is from the October 12, 1999 snapshot on Internet Archive. There was a gap between May 8th and October 12th, however, so it might’ve originated between those dates. I have no way of knowing that, though, so that’s the best I think we’ll be able to get without an account from someone who has firsthand knowledge of this or from Jimmy themself.

@CoachOta Жыл бұрын

Pocket PC devices were pretty powerful. At my work around 2002 my colleague put together a video streaming demo using an iPaq with a PC Card sled and WiFi card. The quality was not great by today's standards but it was impressive to envision a future of watching a show or movie anywhere you happened to be.

@DavisMakesGames Жыл бұрын

Can't believe Michael MJD stole my video idea smh. I make a PDA video then 4 weeks later this drops? Can't possibly be a coincidence! (Jokes aside, it's always interesting to see more of these little devices. Feel like they never quite went as far as they could have.)

@mattelder1971 Жыл бұрын

The speaker issue has to be either with the Toshiba models, or that one in particular, because the HP iPAQ that I had back then was plenty loud and clear. Also, at the time, I used the IR port along with a Nokia phone that also had an IR port to allow my iPAQ to get online, browse the internet and check my email. Yeah, it was slow, but no worse than dialup at the time, and the combination was FAR cheaper than one of the models with the built in cellular modem.

@leonelsr Жыл бұрын

I've seen this technique of using stickers to replace information, on car manuals before!

@lukedavis436 10 ай бұрын

The stickers reminded me of a fiasco the teachers in my old primary school pulled with the Textbooks.. They glued the answer page in the back to the outer cover.... 😂

@inranglhood60 9 ай бұрын

I ran emulators, movies, music, audio recording, GPS, and much more on my old PDAs in the 2000s.

@JessicaFEREM Жыл бұрын

I remember the M515, all of my teachers from elementary from kindergarten to 2nd or 3rd grade had one and it would make some things easier for them, like 2007 or something. it was given to them I think

@stitchfinger7678 Жыл бұрын

I had a cheap Palm that I barely used for anything, especially since I had gotten an iPod and GBA at some points prior I had literally one game that could run, it barely did, and otherwise it couldn't do anything cuz I didn't have an internet connection til like 12. Ahh, I loved that damn Palm.

@arjan1995 Жыл бұрын

How did this connect to the internet, to use things like the Pocket IE and MSN? Was there wifi, or some kind of modem?

@pcc404 5 ай бұрын

the battery switch thingy would be useful on laptops - so that if you use your laptop plugged in it would stop charging the battery fully, and the thing would be demadged slower

@NLDE88 Жыл бұрын

I had the HTC Qtec 9100, what a machine that was in that time.

@YearsOfLeadPoisoning Жыл бұрын

My first phone was an HTC Touch so Windows Mobile brings back some fond, if totally buggy memories. I got so damned good at Bubble Breaker.

@retrodevdroid3670 Жыл бұрын

I still remember when I switched from my old Windows CE PDA to a Windows Pocket one with color screen.

@PixelatedH2O Жыл бұрын

I didn't have this exact model or this specific OS but I did have a PDA which ran CE 3.0 and I thought it was amazing for its time. It's also funny that in this video its mentioned that you wouldn't want to write a five paragraph essay with it. I didn't just write a five paragraph essay with it once, but I wrote a several page short story. Needless to say my hand was in quite a bit of discomfort but I felt like doing it.

@silvy7394 Жыл бұрын

Used one as a kid. Dad bought one of the original Pocket PC's with Pocket PC 2000. Was always fascinated with the thing. Sadly I dont think it works anymore. Got it with a couple other slightly newer models laying around that I havent gotten around to playing with for years. Maybe ill break them out and give them a try.

@tellyjoossens4186 Жыл бұрын

I still have my 2 Mio windows pda's from around 2003. These were very well known since they had build in gps and where used with TomTom software or their own gps software. This was the main reason to buy these apart from games and mails. Synchronisation was done by infrared or usb.

@medijate Жыл бұрын

26:00 It can't play MIDI? Would love to hear a raw MIDI file coming through the speakers on this thing

@PedroManX Жыл бұрын

So awesome.

@kinshirider 4 ай бұрын

The user interface reminds me a lot of the TI-Nspire CX's layout. A lot of the menus, dropdowns, and even the fonts look oddly similar. Guess that illustrates just how dated Texas Instruments' products are compared to anything sold past the 2010s.

@pabblo1 Жыл бұрын

The technology on these PDAs were revolutionary for the time, as you could do many of the functions of a computer on the go. Sadly, I never got to use a PDA back when they were popular, with my only real PDAs being an HTC/T-Mobile MDA III (a phone from 2004 running Windows Mobile 2003 SE, also sold under different names, like the Qtek 9090 or the Siemens SX66), as well as the Sony Ericsson P910 (a Symbian PDA, also from 2004)

@steventechno Жыл бұрын

I remember having a phone with this OS. It wasn't my phone, but I had access to it for awhile. It was a bit beat up, knowing my family can't take care of anything. lmao but it was cool as hell seeing Age of Empires running on a handheld at the time. It still is cool seeing Age of Empires on a handheld as no future ports for iOS or Android ever came to be.

@larsneely4640 Жыл бұрын

To recognize an 'm' in transcribe, I think you had to start with a down-stroke and then continue with the two arches.

@Philfluffer Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine writing a ten page word document or an excel spreadsheet with tons of formula’s in that little tiny display with a stylus?! Ouch. Makes doing that on an iPhone look way super easy. The most useful thing I ever did with one of these things was in 2013 scanning hardware IDs and property tags for deploying IU IT equipment.

@repatch43 Жыл бұрын

My first PDA was a Dell Axim. Despite the MANY limitations I found very good use for it. Got a CF WIFI card for it to connect to my university's WIFI network and downloaded content (email and news articles) for offline viewing during my subway ride. My first smart phone was windows mobile based so it was an easy transition. That said, with it's blisteringly fast always on 2G connection it was a far better experience, except for windows mobile's MANY memory leaks and problems requiring regular reboots, and resetting the whole device about once a week.... The hardware was there, the OS is what held many windows mobile devices back.

@Suukerjunk Жыл бұрын

i got one of these from a relative when i was younger, it was a version with bluetooth, wifi, and it had a MMC (not SD!) and a CF card slot. i used it for everything from file management to mediaplayer. eventually it fell apart because of it's age. battery was stil pretty good tho.

@zdanee Жыл бұрын

I used to have a Jornada 720 from around this era, it's a pocket PC with a proper keyboard, clamshell design and mostly the same guts (ARM 206 MHz, 32MB RAM, CF slot, 640x240 CSTN screen). I used to play Doom on that, but more important there was a brilliant RTS game called Warfare Incorporated for the platform, it ran on basically anything, the most basic B&W Palm devices up to the first few iPhones and Android.