Retro REVIEW: Palm Pilot Professional PDA Organizer

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6 жыл бұрын

A retro review of the PalmOne PalmPilot Professional Organizer
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Details:
Complete suite of PIM applications; 1MB Memory
HotSync technology for PC synchronization
Stores addresses, appointments, memos, email
What's in the box: PalmPilot, Stylus, HotSync cradle, Palm Desktop software, Leather slip-case
Small, light and totally connected, PalmPilot organizers make it easy to store and access all your important information and exchange it with your desktop PC. Say good-bye to messy paper schedules, to-do lists and sticky notes. The lightweight, pocket-sized PalmPilot Professional organizer integrates all of your personal and business information into one device.
You'll have access to thousands of addresses and appointments, as well as hundreds of to-do's and e-mail messages, notes and more, anytime, anywhere. You can backup and exchange information with your desktop PC and popular personal information management (PIM) systems at the touch of a button. It's the #1 way to stay organized.
The built-in PalmPilot Professional Organizer applications include Date Book, Address Book, Mail, To-do List, Memo Pad, Expense, Calculator, Security, Games, and HotSync technology. The user-installed PalmPilot Professional Desktop Organizer Software includes Date Book, Address Book, Mail, To-do List, Memo Pad, Expense Report Templates (for Microsoft Excel 5.0 or higher), and drag and drop links to Microsoft Excel and Word.
What's in the box
PalmPilot
Stylus
HotSync cradle
Palm Desktop software
Leather slip-case
2 AAA batteries
DB-25 adapter
Manual
Getting Started guide
Review
(Cannot ship outside of USA)
1MB storage capacity
Holds 4,000 addresses, 4 years of appointments, 750 to do items, 750 memos, and 100 e-mail messages
Backlit display
Includes docking cradle, adapter, and leather slip case
Size in inches: 4.7 x 3.2 x 0.7
Weighs 6.0 oz
PC and Mac compatible (Mac requires accessory kit)
Requires 2 AAA batteries (included)
MVP and 5-star rating from PC Computing, Editors' Pick from Home Office and Small Business Computing, Best of 1996 from PC Magazine, Best of Byte from Byte magazine, and a stellar rating from Windows Sources

Пікірлер: 69

@Super_Grobanite 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, this brings back memories! My dad had one of these for work and I loved playing Bejeweled on it.

@80sCompaqPC 6 жыл бұрын

I think the green glow of the backlight is lovely.

@diversionmary 2 ай бұрын

What a time to be alive. These came out just as I entered my first semester of college and it seemed like new hugely better models came out every 6 months. My favorite was the iiixe. I swapped to a transparent case and put in LEDs and a little circuit board that would blink when my old Nokia was receiving a call. I think pagers made it blink too? I still hang in a #palmpilot IRC channel. We’ve been hanging in that same channel since the late 90’s.

@valdezmaury467 2 ай бұрын

I just purchased one off eBay for 20 dollars. Currently trying to get rid of my phone addiction and hope this will help

@Lanceawright 5 ай бұрын

This product was genius. It laughed in the face of the Apple Newton. It was smart. It let you import your data from other applications. It synced perfectly to your Mac and Windows computers. It relied on the human brain to make use of the Graffiti handwriting/gesture system.

@MochiColorsZanos 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. Probably the fastest, most informative video ever. Usually people take too long when explaining something or stall a lot. Your voice is very soothing too by the way.

@CharleneOrtizTraining 4 жыл бұрын

I still have my old palm pilot

@harri211 4 жыл бұрын

We used to hang out and watch planes land at Miami International Airport, and with this I was able to track the lineup of incoming planes long before they landed. We thought that was SO COOL & revolutionary at the time!

@McShibby10 4 жыл бұрын

My friends dad used to keep our baseball stats on this back in the day. Loved it

@Danila1 6 жыл бұрын

Apps launched faster than on iPhone today.

@linusdn2777 3 жыл бұрын

Because apple is deliberately slowing down their take to make people buy the next. That just isn't a business model i can support.

@jelmerdijken1529 3 жыл бұрын

@@linusdn2777 almost everyone does

@linusdn2777 3 жыл бұрын

@@jelmerdijken1529 not sony. I've had mine for four years now. Software hasn't slowed down at really.

@jermvasquez3869 Жыл бұрын

maybe because smaller apps and less ram?

@mountainmischief3828 5 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! Blast from the past! 1992 baby here, I remember my mom having a few of these for work and travel when I was around 5 or 6 years old. These were the coolest things until the gameboy color came out a year or two later. What a trip! Makes me feel old 😵😵😵

@paranoidgenius9164 2 жыл бұрын

Palm Pilot - 1997 Nintendo Gameboy Color - 1998😊👍

@TomKenley 6 жыл бұрын

I was an associate pastor when these came out, and I used this thing every single day

@pjsretrogamesmusicandwrass5795 2 жыл бұрын

Would be a blessing for sermon notes and jotting references

@JTManuel 6 жыл бұрын

I wanted one of these back in the day but its cost was so prohibitive especially for a high school student like me. Still looks as high tech as I remember it.

@devintariel3769 6 жыл бұрын

JT Manuel and now you can find them at pawn shops and flea markets

@lindsayhengehold5341 Жыл бұрын

Love these and all PDA organizers!

@LV4EVR Жыл бұрын

The were amazing productivity boosters. The sync app was a game changer. Graffiti was (and still is, if you have a stylus on your phone) amazingly-fast once learned. People would watch you enter text in awe. 😎

Жыл бұрын

When you think about it, this is still a very impressive piece of technology. It's easy to look at such things and say, "Yeah, it's lame compared to contemporary smartphones." I really like a line from one of the Joe Rogan's stand-up routines (fun fact: he mentioned Palm Pilot as well in the same stand-up). "How many of you know how to make any of that shit? I mean, if I left you alone in the woods with a hatchet, how long before you could send me an e-mail?"

@roadmonitoroz 4 жыл бұрын

I owned 2 of those (1st monocrome screen got stolen). The 2nd colour (Can't remember what happened to it). Great device in its day. I used it to play games when I was bored/ waiting on a client etc. I still have games backed up from my palm even :D

@AZREDFERN 3 жыл бұрын

I always wanted one when I was a kid. It not only looked like a sophisticated GameBoy in my imagination, but is was also so much cooler than a Rolodex for keeping phone number and email address. I also wanted to keep track of my $5 allowance with the expenses app. I was a very odd 9yo. I eventually got a cheap knock off that was just barely enough to keep phone numbers and a basic calculator.

@SurvivalSpheres 8 ай бұрын

But you can buy one now! Just for the sake of it.

@johnandlaurencook8584 Жыл бұрын

I was in IT support early on in my career and most executives had this. Hotsync issues were the prevalent issues. Hotsync issues syncing with Groupwise (email) and a program called ACT (early early early CRM) was a standard setup in my corporate environment of the late 90s-early 00s. Blackberry came in and destroyed the userbase for these until palmOS smartphones and of course, the iphone.

@TheLucidLuxray 3 жыл бұрын

I had a IIIx and an m515 when I was younger. Both were hand me downs from my father.

@rubysummit7781 2 жыл бұрын

My high school Spanish teacher had one and spent way too much class time on it, back in 2002.

@33crowdog 3 жыл бұрын

I used palm and handspring. I used the Franklin covey software. It was the best planner tool I have ever used. I am still trying to replicate it today. With iPhone, google etc.

@JimHardie1 5 жыл бұрын

Is there an app that does the same thing as the Palm Pilot?

@z8669zzz 2 жыл бұрын

Very Good Summary.

@leetrendyme9927 2 жыл бұрын

Ever since I’ve watch the cat and in hat movie I’ve always wanted one

@danieloshea3326 5 ай бұрын

My daddy had one in the late 90s

@paranoidgenius9164 2 жыл бұрын

I have a US Robotics one, exact same model with Palm Pilot V2 Pro😊👍🇬🇧

@maxfiedler7858 5 жыл бұрын

this might be an odd place to ask but somehow it's hard to get detailed information, maybe because it's something obvious which i'm missing... i wondered how the Palm Pilot was having connectivity, did it have wlan or how did the email sync work?

@BillBoemanns 4 жыл бұрын

The Palm Pilot came with a cradle that you plugged into your PC through the 9-pin serial port. So you would plug the Palm Pilot into the cradle and then run the Palm HotSync Manager on your PC to sync up with information that was stored on your Palm Pilot, such as Email, To Do list, and contacts.

@PRH123 4 жыл бұрын

I had a Palm dialup modem that attached to the bottom, also AAA battery powered. You plugged any phone line into it and dialed up your internet provider. It would up and download all my emails in less than a minute. You could also sync your desktop email.

@durdy911 2 жыл бұрын

I still have one brand new. Opened the box obviously but no idea what to do with it. This exact US Robotics model. I turn it on once a year just to make sire its still in good shape.

@ricktobin8297 6 жыл бұрын

I was ballin when I got this 😂

@ramkumarr1725 3 жыл бұрын

First thing I bought for 80$ in 2004. Was never that efficient on it. Resold it. 😭😭 But Phablets are awesome 🙏👍👍

@zacharydewolf7232 4 жыл бұрын

Mine Has A Bad Bust In The Bottom Left Corner From Being Dropped First Day Having It Years Ago

@zake2255 4 жыл бұрын

is this Young Jamie 😀

@duszeksmsaczek6394 6 жыл бұрын

I would take this one over the crap Apple iOS and Google Android are making every day. Nothing is perfect, but I like this system most.

@jseden 3 жыл бұрын

Eh.. palm os was good but I'd still take my iPhone over my first smartphone, the palm Centro, was color and ran a much newer version of the OS. Don't remember if I could watch KZfaq with it.. if I could, it wasn't easy. Web browsing was kind of in between WAP and that of early Androids. Also Had a bunch of other, older palms back in highschool too. Early 2000s.

@gamingguy9006 Жыл бұрын

@@jseden apple sucks

@lessthanperfect444 6 жыл бұрын

I have 2 of those.

@shani1122king 6 жыл бұрын

Great Value Pop Tarts please send me one🙂

@TrevorKeenAnimation 4 жыл бұрын

They were great until Palm stopped supporting Mac users so I had to abandon mine around 2004.

@skimasker3049 3 жыл бұрын

I was just watching a video about the original Splinter Cell, and remembered that, the in-game menu is a Palm Pilot.

@andylin3451 4 жыл бұрын

Never seen one in person

@Perich29 Жыл бұрын

early smart phone but you can't talk to any one with that or send text or stream video on that device.

@yvesurlandcorneille7853 4 жыл бұрын

I want one of those now but I am only 7 year old

@benjimenez7702 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, I changed the batteries in my palm pilot according to the instructions - and I lost all my address book data. is there any way to get it back? Did I do something wrong?

@jetaddict420 6 жыл бұрын

no and probably

@lorumipsum1129 6 жыл бұрын

Ben Jimenez nope, these use a capacitor that lasts about 10 to 15 minutes after you remove the batteries to hold data, if something happens or off the capacitor loses its charge, the data is permenantly lost