Liking the iPhone 16 Pro Max and remembering an old favorite
Posted By RichC on October 10, 2024
All of the smartphones I’ve owned since the 2000s have held a soft spot in my heart and the same could be said after seeing a Palm Treo photo in a “Year(s) Ago On This Day” link this week. It sort of makes for a worthwhile Throwback Thursday #TBT kind of subject … along with an iPhone 16 Pro Max photo fitted into the Apple Silicone case?
Back in 2007, I was a fairly happy Palm Treo user and advocate of the physical keys for tactical typing. After having a couple of Treo models … and Brenda using the Palm Centro … I was early to pick up the Palm Pre (slide out physical keys). Eventually after HP bought Palm and their WebOS … the nice smooth pocketable Pre was killed off. It was depressing.
A couple of great feature besides the thumb-boards were the ability to use apps on an SD card and have extra storage … handy for saving of photos. The “cloud” and high-speed wireless connections were not a thing yet.
The Palm Centro keys were even tighter together than the Blackberries of the day and Palm Treo so I wasn’t initially fond of it … but by the time I starting using the even smaller Palm Pre, I was “ok” with it. The same could be said for moving from physical keys to typing on an iPhone display. Amazing how easy it was to adapt … just like forgetting what the iPhone “HOME” but was!!! 😊
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