Yeah, the Palm Pilot was a reasonably successful device for its time. At a prior employer, in addition to lots of the engineers having one, not a few sales reps and marketing types (including myself) did as well. The syncing was admittedly a bit of a pain (my model was pre-WiFi) but I wouldn't put Palm Pilots in the same class as Newton or Google Glass. By today's standard it looks pretty limited but it was relatively widespread consumer tech at one point--though nothing like Smartphones of course.
