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A very long time ago, one of my very first posts to my blog was my Palm Treo History. A malicious hacker deleted that folder along with others and that post is lost forever. But I did get to thinking that maybe I should lay out my Cell phone history to include before and after the Treo and capture that here. So without further adue, here we go.  Sprint Brick: Yea, this one was my first! I debated getting a bag-phone. I ended up running with this one because I felt it more "portable". I remember the plan was $30.00 per month and it included 30 "anytime" minutes. Weekends were free and Sprint was the provider! The best I remember anything past the allowable 30 minutes was something like $0.45 a minute! We carried it everywhere but used it rarely! I actually gave this phone away to a girl who wanted to walk around the Mall pretending to talk on it, just for laughs. We've come a long way baby . . . .
During this time, I had a PDA! it was a Palm IIIx. I think the x meant that it was double the RAM/ROM of the original III series. I can't remember if that was 4 or 8 megs of Ram. But with that said, I used this device. I used it daily and never left home without it! It would become my organizer and I was constantl tweaking, installing, uninstalling, and playing with this device! I dropped the III one day and cracked the screen. But that was not that big of a deal as I had been eyeing a device that offered 16,000 colors vs the grayscale unit I had been using. In fact, it had come down in price to be just a little more than what I originally gave for the III. This was called the IIIc. And the "C" stood for Color! 
It was during this time, that the people who invented the Palm, sold it 3com, and were starting a company called Visor. Visor ran the Palm OS, but included what they called the springboard module. All during this time, I was using a Nokia phone. It was a plain Jane phone that really did nothing more than make cell calls. Its a 3000 series Nokia. Very reliable and I still use it to this day, in times when I am going to be around water or risk damaging my nicer units. One of the advantages of a SIM card is the ability to use multiple phones. I retired the Nokia and the IIIc that I also dropped and cracked the screen to replace them with a Visor Prism with the phone module add on.
 This combination was really cool and brought me lots of questions about my device. At the time, I had dial up access in addition to cable. I could dial up my ISP and surf the net on a blazing 9600 Baud rate data pipe! Oh man, those were the days! But alas, I dropped still another unit and cracked case as well as screen! This was really frustrating me and I decided that maybe this phone/pda thing might not be for me. So I returned to my Nokia and a Palm Tungsten to use two separate devices once again. 
 This was a decent combo for quite a while and without a doubt, the Tungsten was the most rugged of all the PDA's I had owned. It recently gave the ghost but lasted for years as I handed it down to my wife when I decided to take the plunge and converge those devices into a Palm Treo 650. What a great device! 
This device became my bestfriend. Sad, but true, as I couldn't live without it! Software that I added made it how I managed my email, it got me up in the morning, updated my weather, grabbed news feeds, oh and by the way, I used it as my only telephone also! It was that good!!!! But then, I grew frustrated with its lack of adequate memory, its less than adequate camera and its size when compared to many other devices hitting the market. So I said, lets upgrade to the next Treo in line to upgrade to! The Treo 680!  Still in use today in the house, just not in my hands, and a great device, even though its improvements beyond the 650 were miniscule. It added memory, was somewhat smaller and the phone interface was slightly improved, but it was still a Palm Treo. I was satisfied for about a year! But I am watching Palm turn out slightly new form factors using the same ole OS that I have been using now for 10 years and I see other campanies doing things like 3G, WiFi, GPS, and Palm just keeps turning out another Treo slightly smaller than the one before. No innovation. So I get to looking at Greener Pastures! This led me to the HTC TyTN II. I don't regret it!
If you follow me you know this is currently my device of choice! Still not the perfect device nor the ultimate device, but a powerful device for sure! If you know the TyTN, you know this picture, but just in case you don't know what I am talking about, here is a picture of my Current device as of Today! 
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