This Palm was ready to pop and give birth when I found it in book left at the curb. Can wait to get it back up and going with my Tungsten T3. Does anyone have any sources other than Amazon to get a battery replacement?

A few decades ago, many people used PDAs for work and to organize their lives because PDAs were pocket computers. These days, smartphones do everything that PDAs did and much more. Smartphones are essentially powerful pocket computers.

For my departed youth. Treo centro and 680 are still collecting dust in my drawer.

When the founders of Palm created a new company to compete with 3Com's acquisition of Palm, the Handspring Visor (and Visor Deluxe) was the result.

Complete with the hidden screwdriver in the stylus which I once used to remove the cover on a prototype cardiac pacemaker at work so I could swap out some chips.

I've had this Workpad c505 for 15+ years and all I ever needed to do with it was a battery swap.

Last week I was looking into an online retailer old stock for something and found this gem kit that was just delivered for less than $10!

The kit was still in the original packaging, the leather case don't seem to be synthetic, I guess, because touching it feels real and after ~23 years stocked it is in pristine condition! Time will tell.

The keyboard buttons do not feel mushy so the rubber might be fine, but I'll need to browse palmdb archives to look for the driver and config app, because I do not have a cdrom drive to read this disk.

Three stylus completely made of plastic so I'm glad to still have my original, now I also have a few for backup.

Screen protectors might be unusable as the glue layer looks dry and crackled.

Posting just to show off and also ask.. Are there any games that may take advantage of this keyboard?

Connected to my local wifi and using Nina.Chat I was able to get my Palm T|X to log into AIM using the version 1.1 client from PalmDB.net.
Ok, so I did have to patch the prc file to change the port 9993 (27 09) to 5190 (14 46) and then I created a cname record in my public DNS so I could patch that in place of login.oscar.aol.com to connect to login.oscar.nina.chat via the cname redirect, BUT it works anywhere the T|X can connect to WiFi, which admittedly are fewer and further in between than there used to be, but my Phone hotspot works, and my home WiFi works so...

Restored and then painted a Palm TX that was damaged in a copper colour. This makes it look a little more Steampunk. The buttons are sourced from a broken Tungsten T5. Except for restoring and painting the damaged shell the mod is non-destructive. Anyone else out there doing cool Palm mods?

Is there a remake of Bhaji’s Loops and Microbes from Chocopoolp that runs on modern devices?

I found this in drawer from my dad and somehow stuff like Internet with GMaps etc works just fine and it is pretty perfect as a MP3 player for me. Give me advice if you want for apps etc I have it still pretty stock.

I recently came across NetWalk again while playing around with a Palm emulator, and it brought back that wonderfully simple early-2000s PDA game feeling.

So I decided to recreate the experience for modern iPhones and iPads.

I tried to keep the visual style and gameplay as close to that era as possible — monochrome display, pixel graphics, simple UI, and no unnecessary modern game elements.

The screenshot shows my iOS version on the left and the Palm version on the right.

It was also a little experiment for me: I built the entire project with AI-generated code, without manually writing the game code myself. From the initial idea to a build ready for App Store review took about 24 hours.

It’s now actually live on the App Store, which still feels a little surreal.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netwalk-classic/id6795286477

Mostly just wanted to share this with people who might actually remember NetWalk and the Palm era. :)

Does anyone here remember playing it on an actual Palm?

About two weeks ago i thrifted this pink palm centro, had no idea if it would work but for an old phone like this after like 20 years it’s in perfect condition. I bought a charger for it off ebay it arrived today and turned on however it was locked with a password by the previous owner. I attempted to reset it by taking the battery out and holding down the power button and the erase all data option pops up and before i can say yes it disappears. i’m not sure if there is anything else i can do, I absolutely adore this vintage beauty and would love to explore the phone but idk what other ways i can restart it. pls help!

Tungsten E no charger but that’s not hard to find