Sun's Up

[greenstorm]

...and so am I, no one else is, of course.

I've been playing with my new Palm I, which has no transparent plastic bits, is not candy-coloured, and works. Yay. I'm up to abou thalf my typing speed in the mangled language it uses. It has a daytimer and a phonebook which do exactly what I wanted them to do. Very well designed.

Does anyone know if there are more modern palms that: 1) have backup batteries and 2) have wireless internet interface (I know they do, but when/which ones does it start on) and 3) have a way of interfacing with a dial-up connection over a cellphone or something if you don't have wireless present, without a computer intermediary?

Watched the Godfather I the other night. Was interesting.

Am content. Been spending a bunch of time at home, which I like. :)

Oh, there's someone sounding awake. T'care.

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I've been playing with my new Palm I, which has no transparent plastic bits, is not candy-coloured, and works. Yay. I'm up to abou thalf my typing speed in the mangled language it uses. It has a daytimer and a phonebook which do exactly what I wanted them to do. Very well designed.

Yay! :)

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I don't know when they started, but all Palms that you can buy today and a lot that you can't use an internal rechargeable, and the OS knows how to make sure not to run it down.

Wireless connections only start (built-in) on the Treo, which is about $400 or so right now. You can get wireless expansion cards, but I don't know what compatibility is like with those. I suspect that it's only for much newer Palms.

Using a cell as a modem requires (I think): 1) software that works on your Palm, 2) a phone that has an infrared connection (or bluetooth, but that's not relevant to your Palm) so that they can connect, and 3) a Palm-cellphone-dialup service. Also, it depends on what you want to do with that connection. I suspect that you can't get browsers for that old of a Palm. Back then, I think they mostly did a "network sync" so that they could backup the Palm from anywhere. This is the sort of stuff that darthmaus would know best.