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Since the last article, the new Apple iPhone 3GS has come to market and quickly sold more than 1 million units in eight countries.
Rarely has being “one in a million” been so much fun! Many of the millions were likely Sprint customers with expiring contracts and looking to Palm Pre as being their next PDA smartphone. Sadly, Palm’s small screen has been matched by a dismal supply of applications and accessories, only contributing to the continued fall of Sprint and the death knell for Palm.
In fact, Sprint customer service reps hinted that the migration had already begun – from Sprint outlets to AT&T and Apple stores.
Being a lifelong PDA gadget groupie has led to owning many of the PDA contenders and pretenders. So many generations have been owned and loved for brief periods of time. Eventually, each ended up in an attic joining the tribute to office technologies past. One of its earliest residents being the Commodore F4, the first keyboard to offer text writing, spread sheet, and two other functions. It was either the attic or eBay.
The 1990s were marked by the owning of the first HandSpring (in neon blue), a smarter hipper version of the Palm. Handspring offered great fun and functionality on a dark grey on light grey LCD screen. Soon, the HandSpring was replaced by two generations of Dell Axim and two HP iPAQ PDAs running Windows Mobile, each with less than a gigabyte of memory.
After surviving Y2K, the year 2000 was marked by the purchase of the Kyocera QCP6035 mobile, the first widely available Palm OS-based phone from Sprint. It was available for $500 and included a fat 8MB of memory!
Who knew at the time that by the end of the decade, in just eight long years, that the size of phone memory would increase by 4,000x?
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