
JENNIFER: Uh, do you wanna pick a time [to talk] now or later . . . ?
RORY: Later’s fine.
JENNIFER: I’ll make a note in my PalmPilot.
Palm was a line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices were the first popular handheld computers, helping to pave the way for smartphones. The first Palm device, the PalmPilot 1000, was released in 1996. The most recent one, the m505, had been released in January 2002, and cost around $300-400.