Talk:Palm (PDA)

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This article's current state is pitiful. I think I will turn this into a project of mine. Greenmountainboy 03:01, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

1 "PalmPilot," not "Palm Pilot"
2 PDAs?
3 Back to PDA!
4 Needs proper lead section
5 What about the individual palms?
6 List of Palm Pilot Files

[edit] "PalmPilot," not "Palm Pilot"

Someone set up a redirect from PalmPilot to Palm Pilot, but really it should be the other way around. I don't think the name "Pilot" was ever used by the company while it was known as Palm; therefore "Palm Pilot" would be incorrect. "PalmPilot," however, was a registered trademark (now abandoned), according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database. —LarryGilbert 21:03, 2004 Sep 10 (UTC)

Support. If this is wrong then it should be corrected – AxSkov (T) 07:46, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Oppose as inaccurate. The earliest Pilots (first two models) were indeed "Pilots" that were sold by USRobotics's Palm Computing division. PalmPilot was a name that came a little bit later (with the next two models). Then the name changed again and dropped Pilot completely. And, honestly, the way they've changed names left and right this article really should just be at Palm (PDA) or something like that, because the majority of the information at Palm Pilot is for things that happened long after the Pilot name was abandoned. For an image of an original Pilot showing that it's name was indeed Pilot and not PalmPilot, see below. DreamGuy 14:03, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
Move to Palm (PDA) instead. At first I was thinking that we would move it and put the info for the other models somewhere else, but on second thought, the article's a bit short already. Jobarts^-Talk 01:33, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request.. Palm (PDA) seems to be the best name, supported by two people above as well as myself. Please update the page to reflect the change. violet/riga (t) 14:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PDAs?

The article currently has very little about the actual PDAs... Dan100 (Talk) 23:01, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

In the light of the above and the borked move, I'm moving the article back to Palm Pilot. If you want to move it again - update the article to reflect your new title. Dan100 (Talk) 23:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Back to PDA!

I have bounced this page back to the "Palm (PDA)" title. Why? It certainly seems that the page is now a general page about PDAs produced by Palm. If a separate page is needed for the Palm Pilot then fair enough, but this page certainly seems more general than that. Brusselsshrek 20:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

The topic PDA shouldnt just focus on Palms. For example, the xda neo is a PDA, yet manufactured by HTC.

[edit] Needs proper lead section

There's no definition at the top defining a "Palm (PDA)", as opposed to specific models of Palm Pilot or whatever; it contributes to the unfocused feel of the article. I know very little about it, but the article would definitely benefit from a good Wikipedia:Lead section. — Catherine\^talk 18:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Done. Sure someone will improve on my first attempt soon enough, great. Brusselsshrek 21:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about the individual palms?

How do we go to just the individual pages instead of redirecting them torward Palm?

[edit] List of Palm Pilot Files

Does anybody know of a list of files found on a Palm Pilot? I recently had to backup and partially restore my Palm and found that there were a lot of files of which I couldn't remotely guess what they were for. That of course not only goes for the .prc files but also for the .pdb files they create / use. I think such a list would be very suited for a wiki.

Examples: