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by bluGill 450 days ago
Which is strange because the palm pilot was only a year away (this in R&D), and there were other hand held organizers.

The big miss wasn't that cell phones would shrink to fit in a pocket, it was that they would be cheap enough to use. In 1995 you paid dollars per minute to talk and most people who even had one avoided using it.