I had a palm tungsten E, and prior to that I had a Casio BE-300 with this custom rom that turned what was a pretty proprietary device into a full windows CE device.
Honestly, the experience with both of those was enough that when I got my first ipod touch, I realized how amazing the experience was. The problem was that even though the ipod touch was an amazing experience for the time, it was limited by the locked down nature of the platform, so while android was much worse than apple at the time, it was the obvious choice. Thankfully, the open nature of android meant that while my first android phone started off much worse than the iphone of the era, it ultimately became much much better since I was able to install cyanogen and update it considerably.
Unfortunately, android is losing its advantage as it becomes locked down, but gnu/linux on mobile is coming a long way in a hurry. I'm really excited about what it may look like by the time it's time for me to look at a new phone a few years down the line.
Honestly, the experience with both of those was enough that when I got my first ipod touch, I realized how amazing the experience was. The problem was that even though the ipod touch was an amazing experience for the time, it was limited by the locked down nature of the platform, so while android was much worse than apple at the time, it was the obvious choice. Thankfully, the open nature of android meant that while my first android phone started off much worse than the iphone of the era, it ultimately became much much better since I was able to install cyanogen and update it considerably.
Unfortunately, android is losing its advantage as it becomes locked down, but gnu/linux on mobile is coming a long way in a hurry. I'm really excited about what it may look like by the time it's time for me to look at a new phone a few years down the line.
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