HP's OmniGo 700LX Communicator Plus: http://www.palmtoppaper.com/ptphtml/24/pt240021.htm (The HP Palmtop Paper)
This thing is oh so close to my ideal mobile computing solution. Bigger than I'd like, but in 2019, we can do better (and just have the phone permanently in the lid, like the Nokia Communicators that came shortly after this had).
HP OmniGo 700LX Personal Commun…
This thing is oh so close to my ideal mobile computing solution. Bigger than I'd like, but in 2019, we can do better (and just have the phone permanently in the lid, like the Nokia Communicators that came shortly after this had).
HP OmniGo 700LX Personal Commun…
@bthylafh Yes (although I forgot that the Cosmo Communicator existed), although it’s really just the form factor, not the rest of the ethos.
Portable devices designed to use alkaline AAs had rather extreme energy efficiency (because you couldn’t burn through non-rechargeable batteries that fast), and the 200LX PIM is legitimately really good (with the ability to bail out of it to run DOS software).
I’m not sure what the modern analogue to it actually is - 1980s desktop computing adapted to the handheld form factor far better than 2010s desktop computing ever would, and you can’t get away with running old software to reduce resource demands nowadays. But, it’s definitely not those devices.
(Some of this interweaves with my “minimum viable computer” ideas, I suspect, which likely involve falling back to quite a few ideas of the 1980s and 1990s, including limiting multitasking to defined background tasks, but having rapid task switching to simulate multitasking of foreground tasks. (Note that the 200LX and Palm OS both did very rapid task switching (200LX didn’t do it in DOS, though, only its native environment).)