Palm Treo
description: a line of smartphones originally developed by Handspring and later Palm Inc.
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
by Fred Vogelstein · 12 Nov 2013 · 275pp · 84,418 words
pressure-sensitive touchscreen devices on which users pushed on-screen buttons with a finger or a stylus. The PalmPilot and its successors such as the Palm Treo were popular implementations of this technology. Even if multitouch iPhone screens had been easy to make, it wasn’t at all clear to Apple’s
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
microprocessor core, StrongArm was rebranded as XScale in 2000. It had little success getting into cellphones but did better with handheld computers such as the Palm Treo, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and HTC devices. Still, Arm directors had their reservations about Intel’s commitment to the partnership. In February 2005, at
Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success
by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit · 8 May 2011
. Although image-processing speeds are improving—witness the smooth, fast scrolling of iPhone photo album images versus the slow shuffle of images on an “old” Palm Treo—the time it takes to process images on a mobile device and send them back and forth from a server is still the biggest barrier
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
mounted speakers to pump hip-hop through keggers. On Sunday evening at 7 p.m., Ohanian sat on Velásquez’s couch and stared at his Palm Treo, an early smartphone. After an excruciatingly long fifteen minutes, it started buzzing. He answered the call, already excited. “I’m sorry, we’re not accepting
The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job
by John Tamny · 6 May 2018 · 165pp · 47,193 words
BlackBerry “a must-have gadget, a wireless hand-held computer that can send e-mail and make phone calls,”5 and compared it to the Palm Treo. Heard anything about that recently? To be fair, when NPR reported on the BlackBerry, it was the dominant product. No one was thinking that a
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
an indispensable device for legions of businesspeople in the first years of the decade, turning swift thumb typing into a badge of workaholic honor. The Palm Treo featured e-mail, a calendar, and a color screen. Then there were the mobile phone giants—Motorola, Nokia, Samsung—who with every year made their
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger · 2 Mar 2021 · 304pp · 89,879 words
built, and delivered to Kwajalein. Other times, a seemingly intractable issue would be resolved shortly after the launch team left the atoll. The SpaceXers carried Palm Treo smartphones at the time. On one occasion when they were flying home during the Flight One launch campaign, they had just landed in Honolulu when
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by Brian Dear · 14 Jun 2017 · 708pp · 223,211 words
Friendster. It’s how we got Google, which was the answer to AltaVista, Lycos, and Infoseek. It’s how we got the iPhone after the Palm Treo, Apple Newton, and flip phones. PLATO’s story is no different. But what a story. — The Friendly Orange Glow is divided in three parts. Part