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Old 19-09-2012, 11:20
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Kinda random but I was just wondering....

I was digging through some junk last night and found an old Sony Clié NX73 PDA which is actually a really nice machine but the operating system (Palm OS5) is utter crap.
It genuinely does absolutely NOTHING useful at all.

Just wondering if anybody's seen anything on the net which might add better functionality to an old PDA like this or provide any kind of use for it?

Alternatively, maybe somebody can think of a use for an old PDA?

Must say, I blame Sony for this, at least partially.
They seem to have put a LOT of effort into the hardware of the NX73 but decided to not give it wifi and the Palm OS really is truly awful and provides absolutely no productive or useful features at all.
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Old 19-09-2012, 11:44
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Kinda random but I was just wondering....

I was digging through some junk last night and found an old Sony Clié NX73 PDA which is actually a really nice machine but the operating system (Palm OS5) is utter crap.
It genuinely does absolutely NOTHING useful at all.

Just wondering if anybody's seen anything on the net which might add better functionality to an old PDA like this or provide any kind of use for it?

Alternatively, maybe somebody can think of a use for an old PDA?

Must say, I blame Sony for this, at least partially.
They seem to have put a LOT of effort into the hardware of the NX73 but decided to not give it wifi and the Palm OS really is truly awful and provides absolutely no productive or useful features at all.
There is lots you can do with it - comes with plenty of software to do stuff...just not interesting things but that was not what is was designed for.
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Old 19-09-2012, 11:59
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There is lots you can do with it - comes with plenty of software to do stuff...just not interesting things but that was not what is was designed for.
I take it words such as "useful", "functionality" and "productive" in my OP were lost on you?
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Old 19-09-2012, 12:06
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I take it words such as "useful", "functionality" and "productive" in my OP were lost on you?
Then there is plenty on there to be using then
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Old 19-09-2012, 12:17
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What productivity are you looking for – from what I remember of the Clie my wife had it generally was all productivity type software that was included with it.

Not surprised by the lack of Wi-Fi it’s around 10 years old now – not sure W-Fi was really about then.
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