Many people consider the Treo the first real Palm OS smartphone. However, this is very wrong-Palm OS handhelds could already phone when the Treo wasn’t even planned.
The german virtual PDA museum has a few good photos of a few cool devices:
OhFish phone for IBM WorkPad/Palm V
The OhFish phone was one of the classic attachments that one hang onto the back of a Palm V/Vx. The Palm controlled the phone’s operations, and the module itself handled GSM etc. BTW, the current Treo 700p still works the same way, as Palm still didnt create a one-chip smartphone…
http://compuseum.blogspot.com/2006/01/wer-braucht-schon-einen-treo-zum.html
Kyocera QCP 6035 smartphone
The first Palm OS smartphone wasn’t created by Palm or Handspring-it was created by Kyocera/Qualcomm. The PDA museum didn’t yet manage to get a photo of the very first model, but the 6035 still is very similar to the early machine:
http://compuseum.blogspot.com/2006/04/der-osterhase-hats-gut-gemeint.html
What do you think?
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Picture of Qualcomm’s pdQ 1900 (digital cell signal only, versus the 800 which had analog and digital cell support, released about the same time).
http://images.zatz.com/websites/palmpower/issues/issue200001/pdq-a.gif
I owned a Kyocera QCP-6035. It was huge but worked well. The one thing that had, that is still missing as an included option with the Palm OS Treo is voice dialing. Does anyone else find that to be a strange state of things?
To Alex:
Wasn’t there a software to do voice dailing on Treo650?
find this by google
http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo/treovoicedialing.html
Anyway did OhFish phone addon came out first or the clip on from RealVision came out first?
Like so many things with the Treo, the voice dialing feature will COST YOU EXTRA. The software that Palm gives you is TRIALWARE.
Seems really silly, since it was built into the 6035 (with OS 3.5) and the Kyocera 7135 (OS 4.1), both with a lowly 33MHz DragonBall processor!!!!
To add insult to (financial) injury, even after you pay for adding voice dialing to the Treo, it won’t let you dial hands free – you have to lay your hands on the phone. Even if you have BlueTooth – it won’t dial through your wireless headset. So much for the hands free dialing I’ve had in both the 6035 and the 7135. Still have to take my hands and eyes off the road in order to dial a top end Palm phone!