1989. A pocket PC before pocket PCs were cool. 💼💾
Atari Portfolio. Intel 80C88 CPU. 128KB RAM. Monochrome LCD (no backlight). Full QWERTY keyboard. 3 AA batteries.
It was tiny. It was slow. It was IBM-compatible.
And in Terminator 2, John Connor used one to hack an ATM.
The original palmtop. Decades ahead of its time.
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Nokia 9300 Communicator de 2004 ⌨️📟
Avant l'uniformisation des dalles tactiles, Nokia nous offrait de véritables ordinateurs de poche sous Symbian OS.
Apprécions :
🐧 Son côté 'terminal' mobile avant l'heure.
🔋 Sa sobriété
🛠️ Son ingénierie mécanique : la charnière transforme un téléphone brique en mini-laptop
L'âge d'or de Nokia, un sommet du design industriel.
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The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
https://www.spacebar.news/the-flip-phone-web-browsing-with-the-original-opera-mini/
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Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones entered mainstream use. Opera
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