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”.

All the news about the Always Innovating Touch Book reminded me of another not quite notebook from tech history that had a very unique form factor.  The Vadem Clio and identical rebranded Sharp Mobilon TriPad were Windows CE Handheld PCs in the same class as the IBM WorkPad z50 and HP Jornada, however the Clio and TriPad had a design like no other.

The iPaq was one of the last big introductions from Compaq before it merged with HP.  It was made fun of because its name sounded too much like Apple’s iMac, but the iPaq actually grew into quite a diverse family of gadgets.

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.

In many ways, the Cybiko is representative of much that was wrong with the early 2000’s: crazy spelling, asymmetric designs, multiple fruity flavors of everything, and excessively high pricing.  Not surprisingly, Evan actually owns one of these (though he may not admit to it).  Let’s jump into the Cy-world and take a look.

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.