Ten years ago, you could buy the HP Jornada 548 with a colour screen, which let you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check your email and keep a calendar. It had a touchscreen. It ran Windows. It was awesome.
Today, you can buy a smartphone with a colour screen, which lets you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check your email and keep a calendar. It has a touchscreen. It runs Windows. It does everything – everything – better than its ancestor did, in a much sexier hardware package. Plus it makes calls! It will cost you less than the $US450 Jornada 548, though you’ll probably have to sign a 24-month mobile phone contract. Amazingly, though, its software looks and feels almost exactly the same as its 10-year-old brother.
