It seems that you realized that in nature vegetarians are on the victims side.
You just keep earning that ignore.
$34, not bad for 65W.
I'd have gone for a non-sag-a-majig, but that's just preference.
Had great results/luck with Baseus branded chargers and cables lately, too. Anker is still my go-to, but if they're not running a good enough sale it's a solid second option. Got a 65w 4 port (2 USB-C PC / 2 USB-A QC) with 2 A/C outlets and a 6ft integrated power cord for like $22 after all the Slickdeals silliness the other day. Also have a couple of their portable chargers, and the 100w version of the one I got recently. Solid build.
Now to my latest tech purchase!
The IEMs (AWW x TCA Project 4+2) aren't new... But the PDA from 2004 is, at least to me!
So why did I buy a Sony CLIÉ PEG-TJ37 PalmOS PDA roughly 20 years after it lost relevance? Because I saw one in the Chicago Sony store (and a couple years later in an outlet mall) and desperately wanted it at the time, but couldn't afford it. Right now I think I've got roughly $100 in this thing. Paid a whopping $30 for it from a really nice guy on Facebook Marketplace (and my friend bought the Sony Glasstrons I wanted! Oh well - I'll still get to play with them) in exceptional physical condition. The screen is flawless, as is the protective flip cover apart from where it's just flaking from age alone. Looking in to repair options there. There are a couple tiny scuffs on the back cover which are the only indicator I can find it was ever even used. It's beautiful.
The battery had to be replaced immediately as it was quite swollen and threatening to go nuclear, and the power adapter was missing so I had to grab one of those off eBay as well. Supporting accessories ended up costing more than the unit itself, but I'll likely never sell it, so whatever. That and a couple different MemoryStick adapters/readers got me up to around $100 all in. Thankfully not starting entirely from scratch as I already own a PS Vita.
The charger thing is frustrating cause it's a 5.2v adapter so they could have just used USB... But hey. Sony. Gotta have a weird plug for everything. Thankfully the charge and sync adapter - a breakout for Mini-USB and the power connection that literally takes as much or more space than just those two connections themselves - was in the box. I haven't looked up used prices, don't want to know.
It powered right up when I connected the new battery and has been flawless since. Graffiti 2 (the weird Palm input thing) is bad, but not as bad as I expected. If I had this 20 years ago it would have felt like a revelation. HotSync is terrible, and almost impossible from what I've found so far to get running on Windows 11. Thankfully I keep an old laptop around dual booting 7 and 10 for weird stuff like this.
It has definitely been sad to see how much thought, care, and love went in to PalmOS-centric websites at one point and how many have just disappeared since. Really makes me wish I'd been able to afford this thing or something like it in its heyday.
In the picture it is running a cracked version of Pocket Tunes Pro because the company that made it has long since gone out of business without making their stuff freeware and all the keygens I could find didn't work on other versions. This is an improvement over the bundled MP3 playback app because it doesn't skip and pop every time a file switches between bit rates. Full multitasking support - you can listen to MP3s while checking your email, writing to do lists, etc. Pretty impressive for 2004.
The integrated headphone amp is surprisingly high power! More than enough for any IEM (like "don't turn it all the way up, you will hurt yourself" powerful) and probably most full size headphones. They didn't skimp.
There's a MemoryStick to MemoryStick Pro Duo to microSD adapter in there with a 32 gig microSD card in it formatted FAT32. PalmOS 4 or 4.2 or whatever it is only supports FAT16 out of the box so I had to find a freeware FAT32 driver somebody wrote and install that to get support for anything over 2GB. My friend did give me a 2GB original MemoryStick for when I want to be fully period correct, though. Reads and writes are really slow, but thankfully the TJ37 has enough RAM that it's not an issue. I can read and write to the full stick but the OS only ever shows if the first two gigs are full or not. Nobody at Sony or Palm ever thought this was going to happen.
The original stickers down towards the bottom proudly tout the IEEE 802.11b wireless (useless since there's no support for anything above WEP) and 310,000 pixel built in digital camera. That's... 640x480.
What it lacks in megapixels (and low/medium/ideal light performance) is almost made up for in convenience features and smart design we flat out don't get any more. There is a physical camera lens cover with a switch on the side of the unit. If it's not in "HOLD" mode (if it is, move that slider first) using that switch to open the camera cover also wakes up the unit and opens the camera app. Around the corner from the camera cover switch is a fairly large, easy to find physical shutter button. You can take this thing out of your pocket and with one hand in about 2 seconds with no fumbling or uncertainty about what you're doing open the camera app and take a picture. Never have to touch the screen. Never even have to open the flip cover if you're using it. It's brilliant. Classic Sony. Yes, my Pixel 8 will do something similar if I double-click the power button, but it doesn't have a physical lens cover, and I would say it needs it more than the Sony ever did.
The OS skin is classic early 2000s jank, but it's not the stupidest layout I've ever seen by a long shot. I'd rather this than iOS any day.
All in all it's a silly little thing to play with and I'm enjoying it / learning about PalmOS quite a lot.
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A few month ago i bought the successor of the HP-48 an HP-49. Man, i was so proud about. Like at the times of studying. So that old dream was fulfilled. I paid for that unit more than 200€, Originally noone is able to use it fastly because of the UPN. One has to type "1" "2" "+" instead of "1" "+" "2"
