Handheld Computer Museum


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I'm pretty sure I remember some typing 80085 (and something else along those lines) on it and thinking that was the funniest thing in the world. I was pretty young, and the calculator was already old-ish at that point.
2/9/2020
I went from a camera-less flip phone to this in 2012 and it was an utter revolution for me and especially my photography on-the-go.
2/20/2020
I imported my first wonder swan color in high school, this exact color to be exact, and I fell in love instantly! Love all the Square RPGs this little guy has to offer
2/21/2020
I typed up my degree assignments on one… Used for study whilst working away from home. Most memorable thing was day of 911 in office, I was the only person able to get external internal internet, plugged in to phone line. Crowd around me watched twin towers go down on Jornada. Will never forget.
4/28/2020
I went through every 600-700 versions of the HP Jornada, loved them. Would dock it at my office desk in the morning, only to take it with me for the morning meetings and reply there to the emails, dock it again afterwards and voila! ?

When my colleagues were still carrying rather heavy laptops on international travels, all I had was my HP Jornada with it’s built in modem and phone plug I just plugged it into a phone outlet in the hotel room. Loved them!
4/28/2020
I used to play my vita on my way to my grandma's house its was like a 7 hour drive... I had a third party car charger and a had a sister who would constantly try to steal it
4/20/2020
I had one of these back in the early 90’s, remember I swapped it for a Game Boy and 9 games then suffered serious buyers regret as there were so few games available due me locally
4/16/2020
I remember when this came out. I was selling phones are RadioShack at the time. We all predicted (correctly) that we wouldn't sell a single one. And we didn't.
6/26/2020
...i sold it in 7th grade and when i met my bestfriend sophmore year of high school it somehow ended up in his possesion same knicks and scratches haha
5/20/2020
I remember saving up for months when I was in highschool to get one of these. 3 of my friends and I rushed to Best Buy after school on launch day and spent the next several hours loading them up with music and sharing stuff with each other wirelessly. Such good memories!
5/21/2020
I still rem the day my friend bought it, and when he showed me. Mind. Blown. We were roommates back then, college hostel, freshmen, 2004. It was stolen from our room about a month later. So to find out which of our hostel/batch mate took it, we looked at people’s pockets all week long. Most phones were straight candy bars back then, and a N-Gage was quite distinguishable in a jeans pocket, or so we thought. Ah, the simpler times. Never found it though :(.

Thanks to you, today i talked to him after god know how many years. Also, he reminded me – since he lost his N-Gage, his dad later got him a 6610.
5/18/2020
Has one at school, had it taken away from me because they thought it was a game boy; has to tell them it was a phone for emergencies. Showed them ?
5/18/2020
Such a great piece of kit. Primarily used it (instead of a laptop) for backing up/viewing pics from DSLR while on-the-go. Got my Zen out the other day and it powered right up with photos still on there!
9/14/2020
I'd make playlists for college parties, hook up my ipod to speakers. I would also dj with turntables and my laptop - god forbid if my system stopped working I had that ipod for backup.

I think thats how I must have lost it - I brought it as backup for a party I dj'd and must have forgotten it, or maybe it dropped out of a pocket?

The downside to that slim form factor- made it easy to slide out of pant pockets
2/24/2021
I was start with my first Palm pilot palm at 1997, I was haved a Sony Clie 330 and after that a NX70 at 2001 and a NZ90 at 2003. Was my first digital camera, and I play videogames on it. It was so expensive, but I was start to work so young and I use Palm and Pocket pc early.
3/2/2021
...as a high schooler, the phone killed the need for MySpace. Parents didn't yet understand texting had become the primary form of communication when you were looking for trouble.
3/3/2021
I still remember when I first got this phone with its handsfree earpiece, and talking to the weird thing that attached to the back and plugged into phone that worked as your receiver and mic. It would have been great for texting, but at the time they released this in Canada texting was just starting to takeoff. Very few people used texting or even heard of it yet.
3/5/2018
I had this as my very first phone when I was 12. It was a very unusual phone back then because it does not call without a headset but it was a perfect one. It was a cool phone at the same time because it is the only phone back then with a qwerty keypad.
6/30/2017
Great basic phone with QWERTY keyboard. No 3G only dial-up WAP. Used to text on it all the time. Buttons so much easier than pecking at glass.
3/15/2016
had this phone for a few months. its ok if you're a strict texter, but its very annoying when you make/receive calls. you have to plug in the headset. and theres no point in always keeping the headset plug since it cant even play mp3s. cute, but not practical.
2/20/2012
I bought this phone because it was cute; a few days later though, I realized how a liability it was. Lost an important job interview because that one day I forgot to bring the headset. Didn't realize that one needed it to talk. Sold the phone right after.
11/8/2011
The only feature i loved about this phone was that i could type using the full qwerty keyboard. Motorola (to personal experience) and customer survey, is most likely not to be on your christmas wishlist. My V100 gave me endless problems. The screen would magically flip mirror, or read upside down. Sometimes it would split in half, then the halves would swop around or one would flip. Don't even get me started on how many earphone sets i went through with this phone. 4 sets in a matter of 7 months. Not from using too much, but from pure poor quality. The price i paid per earphone set (original motorola) was about 80% of the total phone price, which means in the time I've owned that one, i could've bought another 3 phones!
1/18/2011
What a blast from the past - this was my first ever mobile phone! I thought it was the best phone ever, even though it (incredibly annoyingly) needed a hands free set to be able to talk on the damn thing...
7/23/2007
My parents got this for me as a gift in high school. I remember using it here and there but mostly as a way to backup the position of our car when going out on a hike.

Maps weren't built-in (maybe could load via CD and serial cable?) but I remember the accuracy going way up once the U.S. government lowered restrictions on civilian GPS satellite use.
12/19/2023
I had a Sega Nomad as a kid and was the coolest kid on the bus, letting people take turns playing mortal kombat and sonic and knuckles. The batteries would last the bus ride to and from school for one day. But boy ‘oh boy did it buy me some cool points.
1/9/2024

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