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The Palm Pilot launched a successful generation of handheld devices and personal digital assistants or PDAs. This program looks at the Palm III, Qualcomm's pdQ CDMA phone, the Nino 300 and the Velo 500 from Philips, Hitachi's Traveler 600, HP's CapShare 910, the GoType keyboard, WINCE 2.0, a Palm application called TriCorder, and Franklin's REX PRO. Guests include David Pogue, New York Times writer and author of "Palm Pilot: The Ultimate Guide". Originally broadcast in 1998.