Hjalfi gets a twenty-year-old smartphone

In which yr hmbl svt revisits his first job and the first ever product he ever worked on, which set the trend for all his other products in being cancelled immediately. This is a Motorola Timeport P1088 industrial prototype, made 1997-1999 and then never seen again after the project folded. It’s a very very early smartphone, with a UI in Java running on Tao System’s Elate operating system on a 11MHz ARM. The iPhone came out nearly ten years later. This even predates the famous Nokia Communicator (Symbian edition). I remember it as being fast and snappy, which this certainly isn’t --- either my memory is faulty or this is a debug build. Here’s a classic press release about Tao and Amiga: