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The PalmPilots That Never Were

Posted by timothy on from the cuneiform-input-never-caught-on dept.

harrymcc writes "Among the things that HP is getting in its $1.2 billion takeover of Palm are hundreds of patents for mobile technologies. Many are reflected in Palm's iconic products. But they also include odd keyboard designs, peculiar ideas like a stylus tip that converts into a joystick, and pre-Treo hybrids of phone and PDA that just didn't work. I rounded up some fascinating examples." It's worth clicking through the obnoxious slide-show format to see them.

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  1. slow news day, uh? by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why don't you suck your facebook "friends" dicks, for a change?

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