Remember being sat in the pub circa 2000 and using my Psion Revo connected via my Nokia 7110's IR link to clear some disk space on a server and avoid having to return to the office.
I have a similar memory circa 2000 using all the exact same hardware. I remember getting online on the train, while precariously balancing the phone and Revo on my knee so that the IR link would stay aligned. Symbian OS did not have any IRC client at the time and I wanted to give a shoutout to my friends, so I had to connect to the IRC server with a regular telnet client, issuing IRC protocol commands manually to join a channel and write a message along the line of "Hey guys, you will never guess where I am". Good times.
I still have my Revo in a drawer though. As of five years ago, it was still able to power on. I found the form factor of this device to be great. It was light, energy efficient, actually pocketable and could actually be used for serious productivity in a way that modern phones cannot: I was touch typing all my courses on it with no issues. It sad how Psion / Symbian failed to thrive in the early 2000s.
Ahh that is so cool! I never had a cell phone with a data connection and I was not so in to computers back then but I appreciate hearing how it was used by others back in the day.
I still have my Revo in a drawer though. As of five years ago, it was still able to power on. I found the form factor of this device to be great. It was light, energy efficient, actually pocketable and could actually be used for serious productivity in a way that modern phones cannot: I was touch typing all my courses on it with no issues. It sad how Psion / Symbian failed to thrive in the early 2000s.