see one of the first smartphones, Palm Treo 600

so replacing my trusty pda and Nokia

They were very rare (unless you paid top dollar) outside of the business community, but luck lead me to discover one, brand new, in a quiet county mobile phone shop, going for the princely sum of, I think it was, £12.

I remember how surprised the girl was when asking if they had one, and my surprise when she said yes.

The operator exchanged it after some damage, a few years later, for a Treo 650 which I still have and use today.

I miss the Palm platform .. too far ahead of its time, like so many things.

So no, the Blackberry wasn’t the first.