As HP announced that it will acquire Palm, the company that has made handheld computing popular will be swallowed and is likely to largely disappear. Here are 20 of the most notable devices that were introduced over the past 14 years.
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If you are in your late 30s, you may remember the company that brought a little handheld called Pilot to market and provided compelling handwriting recognition on a monochrome screen. The first device by Palm was the Palm 1000, which was launched in 1996 and is widely seen as the pioneer that has shaped the handheld landscape in the second half of the 1990s.
While the industry moved quickly towards connected devices with Wi-Fi access in the 2000s, Palm was slow to see this trend, even if it got a second chance: The inventors of the original Palm, Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, founded Handspring and initially rolled out the Visor PDA in 1999 and the first true smartphone, the Treo 90 in 2001. Palm acquired Handspring and smartphone know-how and had a clear lead in this space, but eventually lost touch again with the consumer and fell behind the competition.
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