The large and in charge Sony Clie NZ90 was a businessman’s Swiss Army Knife, in every sense.  If the UX50 we previously covered was the ultimate Palm OS PDA, then this was the device that usurped it and took over as supreme PDA.  The NZ90 was the culminating point for not only Sony’s lineup of N-series portrait tablet Clies, but also for Palm OS devices in general and PDA’s at large.

In the days before netbooks, the marketplace for affordable, portable computing was small and bleak.  One of the few bright spots was AlphaSmart, which made a few devices which were basically new-age typewriters.  Read on to find out about the Neo and the Palm OS-powered Dana.

This time in Memory Lane, we look at the Tapwave Zodiac.  This Palm OS PDA was not only a great organizer, but also a surprisingly good gaming device.  However it succumbed to pressure from bigger competition like the Sony PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS, so it did not last long in the marketplace.

Evan came up with this idea while we were talking last week, and I instantly thought it was golden. If the Pre is an “iPhone-killer”, then a phone-less Pre (let’s call it a “Re”) is an “iPod Touch-killer”.

Already forgotten by most people, the Foleo was Palm’s stillborn failure to expand beyond smartphones.  Ironically enough, if Palm had produced the Foleo, it would have been ahead of the curve on the forthcoming netbook trend.  With a few changes, the Foleo could be very successful in the current marketplace.

It is time to take another trip to the PDA graveyard.  This time we look at a Palm OS device that was unknown even when it was around, the HandEra 330.

Considering Palm’s recent renaissance with its new Pre smartphone, we are going to take a look into Palm’s complicated past at the Handspring Visor Edge, probably the pinnacle of the Visors as Handspring shifted its focus over to the Treo smartphones shortly thereafter.

This year at CES, LG showed off a watch phone that made quite a splash.  A trip back in the JPT time machine shows us the Fossil Wrist PDA, which made a similar splash at Comdex 2002.

Here is a device I wish some company would try to recreate.  In many ways, this device was the zenith for Sony Clie’s and even for Palm devices in general.  As you can tell from the picture, the device was shaped like a miniature tablet PC, with a relatively spacious thumb keyboard and a 3.25″ screen that could flip and fold over it.  Therefore, it could be used in both tablet mode and mini-laptop mode.  The UX50 had both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  The Wi-Fi alone makes it useful, even today, …