Way Back When

Remember beaming? Sending your info (or a memo or a short message) to another with a touch of a button. It was a big thing eight or ten years ago with owners of Palm Pilot Vs and I-don’t-which-other-handhelds. When it first came in I used to think it was so amazing. No more writing stuff down! But it’s gone now…a vanished technology. Even the Palm Pre doesn’t have it.

13 thoughts on “Way Back When

  1. Wells: get the iPhone app called “Bump.” If two people w/the program meet, they turn it on, hold their phones, do a ‘terrorist fist bump’ and they exchange phone #s, e-mail addys, URLs and even photos. Silly but fun when you do it.

  2. It’s actually called “e-mailing your contact info” now. Technology only made sense (barely) when handhelds couldn’t e-mail.

  3. The HTC Fuze has something called beaming and, based on the manual’s explanation, it sounds like does exactly what you describe, Jeff. I haven’t actually tried it yet, but it does seem like it would be easier than actually emailing or texting someone your info.

  4. After looking a little deeper into the manual, the HTC Fuze actually uses bluetooth to perform the beam operation, so like regular bluetooth, a pairing must be created first.

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