The folks at Engadget’s usually have excellent columnists and editors – but their latest addition to the team doesn’t seem to be fully up to speed.
His latest column contained the following statement:
Sony led the market in innovation when it entered the PDA space. It offered the first Palm OS devices with removable storage, the first devices that could play back audio and video, and the first high-resolution color devices. All of these clearly drove the market forward. Then the innovations became less innovative and more “gadgetry.”
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As much as I adore Sony’s work in the PalmOS area, this is wrong – the first-ever Palm OS device with external memory was Handera’s TRGpro.
The two images below show the box:
Further information on this vintage device can be had at my coauthor Oliver W Leibenguth’s – if you can read German, hit the link below:
http://blog.compuseum.de/?p=92
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I still miss my HE330. High resolution, external storage, big screen. Palm didn’t adopt some of the features until the TX.
*sigh*
Dennis
Technically, the first Palm OS device with removable memory was the IIIx which had an internal expansion slot into which one could insert a TRG memory card (can’t remember the name right this sec) to double RAM.
I have the Palm Professional which had a removable memory chip, which predates the Palm3x.
For those in the US google translating works alright to translate German into english.
Hi Folks,
thank you so much.
But I guess that we all agree that the TRGpro was the first Palm with industry-standard memory expansion!
Tam Hanna