fanboy.com — With the introduction of 'the Pre' tech history has become very ironic as Palm has become what the Newton was ten years ago: A dead end product. There's nothing original about the Pre at all and no hope of catching up — which is exactly why Steve Jobs killed off the Newton in 1998 (much to the horror of every Apple fanboy including myself).
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chronobyteJan 10, 2009
Egg freckles?Newton was my first big gadget purchase ($900 back in 1993). I even bought the 2400bps PCMCIA II modem accessory and showing off sending a fax with it to my college buddies.Good times..
negativediggJan 10, 2009
Why won't someone talk about HTC??? Even a 8525 on a cooked rom has all these features...
Closed AccountJan 10, 2009
All I care is f**king spam.
eatasandwichJan 10, 2009
"The history of tech is so ironic: Once upon a time in the early 90s Apple gave birth to the first real PDA — the Newton."Buried for inaccuracy after one sentence.
michaelpintoJan 10, 2009Submitter
So if it wasn't the Newton what was the first PDA in your humble opinion?
eatasandwichJan 10, 2009
It really depends how you define PDA. You'll probably define it differently to me simply to win any argument that I try and present to you. A pointless exercise. I cannot win YOUR argument (which I have no doubt you'll have more time for than me), but I say there were personal digital assistants before whoever it was coined the phrase with the newton.
spookyttwsJan 10, 2009
Until some company comes out with a product that's not basically a "catch up iphone" everyone will ultimately make these comparisons and call it what it is, another company's response to the iphone. I'm not an apple fanboy by a long shot, in fact I've only owned one apple product in my life: my iPhone. The only improvements I can see for it aren't what other companies are trying. It could be slimmer, with a bigger hard drive, maybe a better screen, a higher resolution camera (w/flash), and eventually a faster processor (and for some people, better reception, but that's different person to person and ATT's fault). These aren't complains, just simply improvements. Basically, the only way I can see to make the a phone better is to make it more like a computer, which the iPhone basically is.
justifyleoJan 10, 2009
Scobeleizer was raving about the PRE all over Twitter