The most important piece of tech I ever owned was the Pocket PC

Everyone has that moment in life where something changes everything. The year was 2002, and it was Dell's Axim X5 ― my first foray with Pocket PC.



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Nostalgia is an easy gateway to remembering how much better or simpler things were, and that applies to technology too. But memories are tricky, and their accuracy is often tied to emotional states.

The era of Pocket PCs, however, is one of those positive experiences that genuinely was tra...