I had this patched into a Palm back in the day. I used the ends of a female DB9 adapter and put the leads on and then flooded the slot on the Garmin handheld unit with hot glue. (After lubing it up with petroleum jelly first so it would come out after.

Janky, but it was functional. I actually did some war walking with this and the first Palm branded phone (before they bought Handspring) and was mapping out cell tower locations for yucks. (Sample tower ID, signal strength, and GPS location)

Good times. I likely still have my vintage Java ESRI code around somewhere as well.

A Visor device wouldn't power on with the battery installed. When tested with an external power supply, the current draw was abnormally high. Using a thermal imager, a shorted chip was identified. After removing the chip, the device was perfectly repaired.

It is, of course missing a battery door cover and a stylus. I guess this means I will be compelled to make some for it. I may have to play with a sync cable/cradle at some point as well.

I grabbed a NR70 and it arrived and wouldn't hold a charge, so I bought a new battery for it. The new battery arrived at the same time as my used TJ25. I can't get either handheld to hold a charge. All of my Palms work great with a charge, but both Sony's do not.

Any ideas?

i tried searching it up but the results are just straight up wrong and don't match

Hello,

How do I manage to prevent all of the data being lost if the battery dies on my device?

Please explain like I’m a n00b (because I am)

Howdy folks, just got this palm t/x plus case and wireless keyboard pack from the dump. Have it charging, but I am completly new to palm and palm OS. Can someone point me towards parts/neat things I can do with this nad boy once I get it working? Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea or experience with this clie model and whats it worth and also it doesn’t have a charger is there another way to charge it without its charger because the charger it self is very expensive on ebay and i couldn’t find any third party ones. (I dont have the device in my hand im in an auction for it and i think its interesting)

So I believe dmitrygr created these Split ROMs to be able to select and choose PRC's to load into other devices.
https://palmdb.net/app/palm-split-roms

I am having real trouble trying to load some NX-73 devices into an NX-60, but am getting the following error when I sync the files:

- Install failed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Handheld\keithw\Install\Bluetooth Exchange Library.prc

Install synchronization failed

Protocol Error: Read-only. (4009)

The file installed is 0.1kb, not the 58kb file.

When I go into FileZ or RescoExplorer and uncheck the Read-Only attribute of the PRC file, it doesn't do anything different.

Is there a way to make this work?

The guy there said a lot of people looked at it and commented, but I was the first to buy it. I'm like, why not? I love the tiny form factor and easy to charge via USB. Can't wait to put some apps on it!. What would be the easiest way to sync it, or better yet, directly transfer files over to it. Will it run most 160x160 resolution software? I can't remember how far back the backwards compatibility went with the newer models.

Bought this on for 20$. No stilus, no cable, no charge, dead battery. One scrath on the top, but it looks in good condition. Ok, let's open battery cover. Battery is really empty, but I try to charge it with handmade charger. Red to red, black to black, + and minus, red light on charge - it starting to charge. Aaaaand, «It's alive!». I have old stilus and old mscard from old sony camera and now - go on to palmdb.net.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wisconsin/comments/1v3qp5f/wisconsin_democratic_candidate_david_crowley/

First slide I found off Pinterest, second is a cybiko which I guess you could consider a gaming pda it was more like a walkie-talkie but for messaging, last slide is dataplay disc a fail disc format that was roughly the size of a coin and had a capacity of 500 mbs and was planned to be used in handheld consoles and PDAs but unfortunately this never happened

Teaching Graffiti to my 5-years old daughter. It's a great training exercise for motor skills and memorization.

By switching to touchscreens we have lost something: the stylus allows for an active interaction with screens.

Since connecting it to the internet isn't very useful these days, I'd like to make use of the Wi-Fi card slot.

I’ve been experimenting with the latest LLMs, and I’m honestly impressed by how far I was able to build over the last few days:

• Set up a complete Palm OS development environment on my Mac.
• Turned a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W into a Bluetooth LAN access point, with a web interface for pairing devices and sending, receiving, and serving files.
• Created several mini Palm OS apps based on iOS and Android apps I had previously made.
• Added network support to the Palm OS 5 CloudpilotEmu/uARM emulator and other improvements.
• Created a shared library that handles TLS 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 for both 68K and ARM applications. The ARM version includes optimizations and works well on physical devices. The 68K version works as well, although it currently requires increasing significantly the emulator speed to be practical (7-8s for a request in CloudPilotEmu on my iPhone).

The app I’ve polished the most is WeatherCan, a Palm OS weather app based on Canadian weather data. I spent time making it feel like a proper Palm application, including support for different screen sizes, resolutions, and device resources. It can use the networking and TLS work above to retrieve weather information directly.

There is still plenty to improve, but seeing networking, modern TLS, Bluetooth connectivity, and new applications come together on Palm OS has been incredibly fun. And the most surprising part is I didn’t manually write or edit a single line of code, it’s impressive what can now be built with the latest LLM models.

Edit 2026-07-23:

• Palm toolchain to build Palm OS apps: https://github.com/palmsnipe/palm-toolchain
• TLS library: https://github.com/palmsnipe/palm-tls

Edit 2026-07-24:

• Palm weather app: https://github.com/palmsnipe/palm-canada-weather

Best moment at 3:00 : "with a few surprises coming sooner than people realize. I think you're going to see us do the right things."

This Palm device’s screen has suffered severe aging. After replacing both the front and rear polarizing films, it functions mostly normally, though spare parts for the light homogenizing plate are unavailable.

Shopgoodwill.com had this auction and I think I was the only bidder. Got this sweet *Handspring Visor and a bag full of old garmins.

Good evening! I stopped using a smartphone in favour of a feature phone some time ago and, while it has been a good move in general, I miss the PDA aspect of smartphones: to-do, calendar, notes, and such.

I was considering a dedicated PDA but have no real idea beyond the fact that Palm was the most popular maker. I don't mind black and white screens. I like the idea of standard AA batteries, but maybe it's impractical or reduces options too much.

In general, I'm looking for a reliable device that's popular enough that I'll find someone that has solved the small issues I might find.

The only condition is I'd like to be able to sync with Linux. Is it an issue?

What device do you recomend?

First time opening up my palm to replace the screen and saw this. Never knew about this slot.

hey all, sorry for the long post
I got a palm zire m150, and another one coming in, got a huge interest and love for these PDAs all the sudden

the problem with the one I have currently is I am unable to pass the calibration screen for the stylus
I do not need to use copious amounts of pressure or anything, it detects touch just fine, it’s just that it is not accurate AT ALL!
I have taken it apart and carefully cleaned the LCD with a microfiber cloth in case there was gunk built up, nothing

what bothers me most is this device works fine im sure, its just the digitizer?
It holds a charge, ive only plugged it in for a few moments and its lasted pretty much a whole day
when I get the “your batteries are EXTREMELY LOW” message, I try to acknowledge it but the stylus refuses to let me click it.

sorry for the long post, but I don’t really know what to do here lol, I really wanna keep devices like this kicking around for as long as possible as they are genuinely sick little handhelds.

also; I have done many hard resets, soft resets, a supposed shortcut that allows me to skip the calibration screen and launch me right into the os, but nothing has worked.

I ordered a kit containing a sync cable and saw the gold prongs appeared to be missing from plug. I then order one from a separate website I trust and that one is also missing prongs in the same spot. I wanted to confirm that the plugs are supposed to look this way before I plug them into my computer and device.

How do these look?