Smartphone Throwback: Palm Vx

The Palm Vx was an early PDA device that had a monochrome screen, few third-party apps, no internet (without an extra accessory), and a very slow CPU. Battery life was also pretty bad. Here we take a look back at a legend!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• palm
• vx
• throwback
• smartphone

[PoetryRocksGadgets]

10 years from NOW, PocketNOW will throwback the HTV Evo 4G (first 4G phone) and they'll be reviewing robot slaves w/ phone functionality.

[ninian1234]

Pretty interesting video and concept. Just keep at it and you'll get more natural as time goes on; ignore the idiots saying stupid shit. I enjoyed it and felt it was a well spent 3 minutes.

Keep it up.

[NZMantaGSi]

@galexander4 Funny you say that about the battery life; I was having a cleanup in my garage and found 1x Palm Tungsten T2, 1x T5 and 2x Palm Vx's. The two tungstens were totally out of charge but one of the Vx's still turned on and ran for quite a while. I couldn't even say how long they had been switched off and away from the charger, I know it was a bloody long time! 11 years old and the battery life is still insanely long, I love these old V units

[rajithaify]

i've got one of those! pretty awesome compared to it's age.

[galexander4]

Not true -- there were a lot of apps, including apps that would allow off-line email access (you transfer email every time you sync it in the cradle). But more importantly, the battery life on the Palm Vx was incredible. I would frequently go a month without a charge, which is unfathomable for current phones/PDAs. And it was _much_ faster at the apps that it had than any modern PDA -- it didn't over-reach.

[victor010101]

Well composed review indeed. A+ for composition!!!!

[tuephieehm]

how to switch on a PalmV .. ? and how will i know if its charging or not ?

[mcginley13]

just found what looks to be my dads old one but dont know how to turn it on

can some one please tell me

[arosnett]

Great. I just revived a Palm Vx with a new battery. It's the only device that I can rely on for making day-to-day notes. Writing with 'grafitti', the original one-stroke-only text input is just super.

[jefroxxxx]

hey dude, may i know how much is this now? i have two of it.. and i don't know what it cant do..

[AZLAN210396]

my dad had this, I origanally thought it was a toy so I just played with it.

[person55554]

i have two of those laying around somewhere. they still work. haha.