Q9 to be more precise. And yes, we desperately need communicators! I would not mind a book-style keyboard foldable like Psion Series 5. And we actually had Planet Computers. Sadly, they went another direction, and only selling old stock for now.

This is a cool community, thanks for all your posts in it This one caught my attention, you said you livestreamed it, do you have a YouTube channel or something? I want to know more about this project but dont want to ask questions without seeing the video first

I had a Cassiopeia PDA with Windows CE. Also is that a Motorola Q? I think we need these "communicators" again

Top right: Motorola A1600

I distinctly remember when this phone came out, thinking to myself: It’s the future. Lol

What are the models pictured? Some of them I don’t recognize but there are some gems too!

There was a PocketPC/Windows CE port of Doom, so. Yes.

(I had a Dell Axim X50v which also had a VGA screen, and for a very brief moment in time was the undisputed king of handheld computers. Those were the days.)

https://canitrundoom.org/

I believe that is an N810 nameo tablet.

The only brand new one is the Motorola ROKR E2 in the middle.

It's not quite often to see damaged units on sale, as most of them are headed to a dumpster/recycle shop.

Just today I salvaged a portable cassette player in a decent cosmetic condition, I've yet to check the inner mechanics, but I'm pretty sure I'll bring it to life one day.

Do they all still work?

If these were daily drivers I'm also impressed that none of the screens have cracks.

Man, I miss my N900 and hardware keyboards in general.

What an awesome looking device! Any fun memories?

I kind of understand why Microsoft dismissed the iPhone back in 2007. Microsoft devices had full keyboards and daylight readable screens that worked with gloves or anything. On the software side it was completely open. None of the "you can only install apps from the official store that takes a 30% cut."

I loved all the physical buttons on my Pocket PC. It let it double as a game console running Mame.

Hearing that, honestly I'm amazed that Microsoft and their myriad of blunderous and unfocused handheld OS options had any penetration in that part of the world at all.

Whatever else Windows CE/Palm-Size PC/PocketPC/Windows Mobile may have been in the West, one thing it certainly was turned out to be a clusterfuck. Windows CE itself hung on for a surprisingly long time in non-handheld industrial and embedded applications, but interest in the PDA oriented side of it basically vanished in a puff of smoke shortly after the release and subsequent Earth-shattering popularity of the iPhone.

Somehow the shambling husks of Palm OS and PocketPC managed to shuffle on until 2009 and 2010, respectively, to little fanfare and practically nobody in the world caring anymore. For what it's worth that means PocketPC/whateveritis technically outlasted Palm. Just, not to the real benefit of anybody.

You're absolutely right here, this is my personal bias as I come from that part of the world (ex-USSR), where Palm's market share was almost negligible. I'll make sure to actually fix this in my presentation.

Where Microsoft once held indisputable dominance

Palm OS: ಠ_ಠ

I have a palm somewhere in the loft. The one you could pull the section with the controls down and have a bigger screen. Been wondering what I could do with it. Great OS as I remember. Even got the little folding kb.

It's that a T5 on the right? I used to have one of those.

That's probably a good trade. Too bad the battery swap on a Vx is such a terrible pain.

These are quite cool, I have a couple. Unfortunately not of much use nowadays

Agreed. I had an N900 instead of this, but the sentiment is the same. Never forget what Steve Jobs and his stupid black turtleneck took away from us.

I miss physical keyboards. This time was just great for so many choices.