Before that I've had my Palm IIIe for nigh on 9 months now, and it's still going great. Many people view these Palm's as purely a useless gadget feeding some technophilia, and this is partly true. I'm sure many people own a Palm, but have scarcely used it for anything more than placing it on a table in the most recent Conran resturant. I feel the same way about mobile phones - the intrusive, ubiquitous, noisy demons from Hell.
Mobile phones are everywhere, but in very few cases accomplish anything useful.
Before mobiles everyone had the amazing ability called 'Pre-planning'. Agree a time, agree a place - it was that easy. And then there's Text Messaging. Apparently a new craze, although these people clearly haven't heard of email. What is Text Messaging apart from email with an incredibly inefficient method of text input.