Another Pocket PC In The Movies

[Brad Adrian]

I just went to see the new movie, <a href="http://www.thebournesupremacy.com/">"The Bourne Supremacy"</a> this afternoon. For the first few scenes of the movie, I wasn't quite sure whether I liked it or not. But then, one of the secret agent-type people quickly whipped out a Pocket PC. For a moment, I was elated to see the iPAQ 5500 on the big screen.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/adrian/fingerprint.jpg" /><br /><br />The filmmakers obviously knew that the 5500 has some form of fingerprint scanning capability. But, the guy in the movie used the screen of the iPAQ as a miniature flatbed scanner, using it to lift some fingerprints and zip them off to Intepol or somewhere for matching. Oh, well. At least it was a Pocket PC and not one of those "other" devices.<br /><br />I know I've seen Pocket PCs in a few other movies, including a James Bond flick, but I can't recall any others. Anybody remember seeing a Pocket PC in a movie?

[WillyG]

I have seen both iPAQ 1910/1940 in the 3'rd series of 24. "CTU" seem to use Pocket Pc's extensively.

[Darius Wey]

I have seen both iPAQ 1910/1940 in the 3'rd series of 24. "CTU" seem to use Pocket Pc's extensively.

I also recall them using GPS systems on PPCs (I can't remember which one) in Season One too!

[bjornkeizers]

Ben Affleck uses a PDA in 'The sum of all fears'. I think it was one of those old Jornadas, but I'm not sure.

I've also seen several PDA's on ER.

[wocket]

Yeah I thinking about this the other night. How many different shows, movies etc pocket pc's appear.

Two and a half men (TV Show Charlie Sheen) two HP iPAQ 5500 appear for instance

James Bond used a HP Jornada I think can't remember which film though.

[DrtyBlvd]

The Bond movie was "The World is Not Enough"

Didn't The Bourne Identity have one in it?

[Mort]

The movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' featured the Trimble GeoXT in a number of scenes. Despite not being a consumer product, the GeoXT is a combined GPS/PDA device running the ‘Windows Mobile 2003' OS. While the science in the rest of the movie was debatable, the use of the GeoXT was pretty reasonable.

[Jude]

Sidney Bristow used an iPaq in the post-Superbowl episode of Alias.

They used a Casio E-xxx in the first Charlie's Angels movie but Cameron Diaz called it a "Palm Pilot".

[cslaughtermd]

I believe that Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft in the first Tomb Raider movie used a state-of-the-art Cassiopeia PocketPC.

Great thread! Any more?

[jonathanchoo]

The last Bugs Bunny movie with Brendan something features a PocketPC mobile phone (I believe it was a Samsung) and some old Handspring Treos.

The first Charlie's Angels movie has the 'baddie' using a Casio Palm-Size PC while the Angels were using a Handspring Visor to read his appointments that were downloaded.

The use of a PDA as a scanner in a movie was done before in James Bond movie 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. Bond used his Ericsson (which was a touch panel smartphone) to scan the panel for fingerprints.

I did not remember seeing a PocketPC in Tomb Raider. Angelina was using a PDA but it was a Ericsson concept smartphone.

The Tungsten C will feature heavily in Britanny Murphy's next movie - Little Black Book due out soon.

[Ninram]

the 3rd season of 24 also showed the bad guy using an OQO. Thank TiVo or I'd missed it.

[bodab]

I've seen the movie Out of Time with Denzel Washington recently, there's an iPAQ 5xxx something that has GPS functionality (without any add-on :)) and helps them to track down the "bad guy".

[Arqentus]

Movie: Out Of Time ( with Denzel Washington as a local cop )

Pocket PC used as GPS locater for him & his men ( and plays a important part later in the film in locating him ). Don't know what model that is, it has 2 iron like bars like on the side ( expansion pack or some grip pack? ). The OS was 2003.

Flaws: GPS locater for his men, ok ... now, unless i'm bunkers, you need to transmit your location ( don't see any antenna setup on the PocketPC ), nor is there any GPS reviever so you have accurate location to transmit ( kinde defeats the purpuse of calling it gps locater in the movie ). Also, it's used from in a case ....

Some flaws....

Edit: daim, bodab beat me to it ( next time i need to stop rewatching the movie to locate the device ;) ).

[ppcsurfr]

Big Fat Liar!

There was an iPAQ there... :-)

Carlo

[Duncan]

Sidney Bristow used an iPaq in the post-Superbowl episode of Alias.

iPAQS have been used lots of times throughout Alias - usually the most up-to-date models as well. Curiously I can recall Sark, one of the chief villains, using a Palm. There you have it then - good guys use Pocket PCs, bad guys use Palms...! :wink:

[Ryan Joseph]

Yeah, Borne Supremacy was great from the tech standpoint. While they may not have used the fingerprint reader entirely correctly, at least they got the right model for biometric reading. :wink:

And I agree, 24 is one of the shows that seems to get everything right with gadgets.

I love seeing PPCs in movies! Keep them coming! :mrgreen:

[jwb1969]

I wish I could think of some more PPC's in movies, but unfortunately only non-Borg entities I could recall. Two movies that come to mind is two old ones, and a new one.

An old one is Under Siege, where Seagal, sends a fax via his Apple Newton from the train. He also keeps his recipes in there.

Another one is a really old 'handheld' is from LA Story, a great Steve Martin movie parody about life in LA. There is a scene where he is squabbling with Woody Harrelson his boss in the movie. And in the elevator he mockingly type his suggestions into what appears to be an old Sharp ZQ5200. Remember the folding calender, contacts, memo device, before the world of Palm's?

Lastly, there is a new movie coming out which features a Palm Tungsten, but at least the PDA is kinda the star of the movie. The premise is, his girlfriend hacks into his PDA and finds out about all his ex's and other skeletons. Geeee, sounds like fun. A few words for him....upper case, lower case, numbers & symbols.....


James

[jonathanchoo]

Sidney Bristow used an iPaq in the post-Superbowl episode of Alias.

iPAQS have been used lots of times throughout Alias - usually the most up-to-date models as well. Curiously I can recall Sark, one of the chief villains, using a Palm. There you have it then - good guys use Pocket PCs, bad guys use Palms...! :wink:

Not in Charlie's Angels.

[Mattb90]

Sidney Bristow used an iPaq in the post-Superbowl episode of Alias.

iPAQS have been used lots of times throughout Alias - usually the most up-to-date models as well. Curiously I can recall Sark, one of the chief villains, using a Palm. There you have it then - good guys use Pocket PCs, bad guys use Palms...! :wink:

Yes, I remember in one episode this season the use of an iPAQ 2210 to read the map data stored on a modified SD card that was hidden in a fake 1 Euro coin. A minute earlier in the same scene they used a real SD card, which didn't contain the data.

[Lday]

Jamie Lee Curtis had an Ipaq in Freaky Friday. Not sure which model, it was in the arsenal of devices she loaded into her purse before heading off to work.

[jonathanchoo]

Lastly, there is a new movie coming out which features a Palm Tungsten, but at least the PDA is kinda the star of the movie. The premise is, his girlfriend hacks into his PDA and finds out about all his ex's and other skeletons. Geeee, sounds like fun. A few words for him....upper case, lower case, numbers & symbols.....



Its a PalmOne Tungsten C and the movie is Little Black Book. You can view the trailer here http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/littleblackbook/site/ . Ironically the movie is released by Sony.

Update: I think the movie is great on showing off PDAs in general are part and parcel of our life and is replacing personal organizers. It is not about tech and gadgetry which is a nice - just that PDAs are probably as common as mobile phones today (or will be).

[cherring]

I saw an IPAQ being used in CSI Miami on a couple of episodes. The character played by Adam Rodrigues uses, I think an Ipaq 5xxx with a little stub arial on it.

[dma1965]

I remember the movie "Charlie's Angels", where they upload information off of the alleged villain's Jornada while he is passed out, but they refer to it as a Palm Pilot . :evil:
I also renember an episode of Will and Grace , where a guy Will is dating gives will his birthday so Will can put it in his Palm Pilot, as Will refers to it, and Will pulls out an iPaq 3000 series. :|

[Macguy59]

Wesley Snipes used a Casio E115 in "The Art of War"

[Brad Adrian]

Yeah, Borne Supremacy was great from the tech standpoint.
I won't spoil the story for you, but early in the movie Bourne is detained by an incompetent field agent. What's the field agent using? A Treo 300!

The moral? Good, smart guys use Pocket PCs, dumb bad guys use Treos!

[Brad Adrian]

The Bond movie was "The World is Not Enough"
That movie came out just as the Pocket PC was being launched, and HP offered a special James Bond version of their Jornada. I wanted one of those SOOOO badly! I don't think I've even seen one since then.

[Jon Westfall]

Lastly, there is a new movie coming out which features a Palm Tungsten, but at least the PDA is kinda the star of the movie. The premise is, his girlfriend hacks into his PDA and finds out about all his ex's and other skeletons. Geeee, sounds like fun. A few words for him....upper case, lower case, numbers & symbols.....



Its a PalmOne Tungsten C and the movie is Little Black Book. You can view the trailer here http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/littleblackbook/site/ . Ironically the movie is released by Sony.



Update: I think the movie is great on showing off PDAs in general are part and parcel of our life and is replacing personal organizers. It is not about tech and gadgetry which is a nice - just that PDAs are probably as common as mobile phones today (or will be).


Only problem I've seen with that movie is the screenshots of the tungsten. Ok, I know that real screenshots wouldn't look have as amusing or move the story line as quickly as "hollywood" screenshots, but it still bugs me. Maybe the trailers are wrong and in theatres they'll use the real thing...

[rommels]

Another movie where the iPaq showed up was "Paycheck".

It was the scene where the agents where talking about Ben Afleck's role, and there was a secretary typing on a small keyboard connected to an older version of iPaq.

"World Is Not Enough" is where the first advertisement of Windows 2000 appeared. Elecktra King (Sophie Marceau) was working on her laptop, and you can see the flash screen of Windows 2000.

"Sum of all Fears" was actually a Casio.

[jonathanchoo]

Only problem I've seen with that movie is the screenshots of the tungsten. Ok, I know that real screenshots wouldn't look have as amusing or move the story line as quickly as "hollywood" screenshots, but it still bugs me. Maybe the trailers are wrong and in theatres they'll use the real thing...

What is wrong with the screenshots?

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/revolution_studios/little_black_book/_group_photos/brittany_murphy8.jpg

[jfreiman]

... The first Charlie's Angels movie has the 'baddie' using a Casio Palm-Size PC while the Angels were using a Handspring Visor to read his appointments that were downloaded.
...

I thought it was an HP, but anyway, the interesting part is that they reffered to their PocketPC as a "Palm" [Pilot]. ;)

[imf4]

That movie came out just as the Pocket PC was being launched, and HP offered a special James Bond version of their Jornada. I wanted one of those SOOOO badly! I don't think I've even seen one since then.I have one of these. It is the Jornada 430se. It was RIGHT before the actual first "Pocket PC" came out from microsoft. It had Win CE 2.11. From what I remember the first Microsoft "Pocket PC"(marketed term) was with CE 3.0.
I still have it. It doesn't really work anymore because the battery is shot, but I got a lot of use from it. I remember when I got it, it was a big deal that it had Stereo sound and a built in MP3 player in the rom lol. It actually had a sticker on it that said MP3. Right after this the first IPAQ came out and that really did change everything. Everyone I know went out and bought the IPAQ.
I also bought a 64mb CF card for it. The price for the CF card was $220 + tax. Now that same size can be bought for 20 dollars.

[Gremmie]

Ben Affleck uses a PDA in 'The sum of all fears'. I think it was one of those old Jornadas, but I'm not sure.

I've also seen several PDA's on ER.

Ben Affleck used a Casio E-800 and a E-125.

[chefz]

In the movie Intolerable Cruelty, with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones, she and her socialite friends used iPaqs (the 3000 series I think) in designer cases around the pool to coordinate their schedules. Interesting because Clooney's assistant was shown discussing his schedule and using a big bulky paper planner. :wink:

Chefz :D

[Brad Adrian]

...the battery is shot...
I don't know if it takes the same battery as the later Jornadas do, but replacements are still available online.

[JimPAQ]

Not really a movie or TV show, but there is a Six Flags commercial going around here in Texas right now that has a little girl and her dad sitting on the porch coordinating their schedules using what I think are Jornadas. Then the Six Flags bus pulls up and they both decide they make time to go to Six Flags.

--Jim

[i_spock]

Anyone see Spartan with Val Kilmer yet? I just rented it last night. In one very quick scene they were using an iPAQ for GPS. I rewound it once to see if I could make out the model, the best I could see was that it had the power button on the top center of the device, so I think it was a 1900 series...

[Jon Westfall]

Not really a movie or TV show, but there is a Six Flags commercial going around here in Texas right now that has a little girl and her dad sitting on the porch coordinating their schedules using what I think are Jornadas. Then the Six Flags bus pulls up and they both decide they make time to go to Six Flags.

--Jim

Yea, that commercial is in Ohio too. Kinda confuses me why the dad doesn't have a new shiny IPaq after passing the jornada to his offspring a many here do. Must be a diehard jornada fan... :mrgreen:

[mara6]

In Eight Legged Freaks the kid uses an iPAQ with a CF Camera as a personal journal type thing and he records every thing he sees. Then he syncs it up with his computer. :wink:

I think this is the best movie that uses a Pocket PC, because everything (i think) was accurate. :lol:

[beq]

In Stargate Atlantis, the Ancients from millenia ago apparently used some type of PDA (looked like a PPC) with some semi-transparent acrylic frame bolted on. Anyone seen it?

[CME2C]

In Caddyshack , Rodney Dangerfield used a very large device (his golf bag) that played music and had an integrated television. I think this was the first movie I remember with a portable multimedia device.

[chefz]

In Stargate Atlantis, the Ancients from millenia ago apparently used some type of PDA (looked like a PPC) with some semi-transparent acrylic frame bolted on. Anyone seen it?

:mrgreen: I did notice that when I watched the Stargate Atlantis premiere -- I remember laughing at how little they tried to disguise what looked like a 1900 series IPAQ :roll:

Chefz :D

[mara6]

Big Fat Liar!

There was an iPAQ there... :-)

Carlo

I just watched it to see if there was, and I didn't see any handheld at all! The closest thing I saw was the tape recorder in the court room. :roll:

[jackdaniels]

In the last season of 24 one of the bad guys in the mall that shot Tony Almeda was using a Hitachi G1000. Sprint phones are featured pretty heavily on that show.

[smerickson]

I don't mean to be picky, but I just saw Bourne Supremecy and I think it was the 22xx series that was in it. Still very cool. :D

[kosmicki]

I don't mean to be picky, but I just saw Bourne Supremecy and I think it was the 22xx series that was in it. Still very cool. :D

No way, that was a 5500. I clearly saw the REAL biometric scanner under the joystick.

They actually used the screen that you see when you register your fingerprints for the 'scanning' when the agent puts the print on the screen. So it could NOT have been a 2200. :mrgreen:

[David Johnston]

In the second series of 24, they had both a Palm (no surprises), and a Toshiba Pocket PC.

Only trouble was that the Palm survived, whereas the Toshiba was destroyed in the large nuclear explosion (remember it was used for the countdown).

They also used a PocketPC in the second series of Spooks/MI-5 (http://spooks3.johnsto.co.uk/), the one with the hacking wiz kid. It was great until I noticed that despite all their technical knowledge and wizardry, for some reason MI5 were using a Flash program loaded into PIE...

Ok, not strictly films, but close enough :)

[mangochutneyman]

Yeah, Borne Supremacy was great from the tech standpoint.
I won't spoil the story for you, but early in the movie Bourne is detained by an incompetent field agent. What's the field agent using? A Treo 300!


Actually that incorrect! He was using a Treo 270! FYI, the Treo 300 is CDMA and thus does not have a sim card...;)

[Duncan]

Only trouble was that the Palm survived, whereas the Toshiba was destroyed in the large nuclear explosion (remember it was used for the countdown).

Typical Palm propoganda, media misrepresentation - a Pocket PC would *easily* survive a mere nuclear explosion...!

[David Johnston]

Typical Palm propoganda, media misrepresentation - a Pocket PC would *easily* survive a mere nuclear explosion...!

I should have added that they only actually exposed the Pocket PC to the explosion, and the Palm was far far away... and they never actually confirmed that the Pocket PC was destroyed, because they didn't show it after that point. But that and the mushroom cloud sorta convinced me it probably got blown to molten pieces of hot silicon.

I'm beginning to think this site needs spoiler tags.

[kosmicki]

I'm beginning to think this site needs spoiler tags.

For what? I have not seen anything spoilish. For the nuclear thing, come on, thats not a spoiler. It's last years season of a show on broadcast television.

And this is the only remote thing that might require them, and its about the gadgets in them, not the actual plot...

[kosmicki]

:mrgreen: I did notice that when I watched the Stargate Atlantis premiere -- I remember laughing at how little they tried to disguise what looked like a 1900 series IPAQ :roll:

Clearly that is where HP got their design, after all. Who knows how long ago that episode was shot... ;)

[imf4]

I don't know if it takes the same battery as the later Jornadas do, but replacements are still available online.The batteries are different than to later jornada models. There are still companies selling the batteries but, I have an X30 so it wouldn't really be worth it to get one. It is fun taking a walk down memory lane though.

[Brad Adrian]

In Eight Legged Freaks the kid uses an iPAQ with a CF Camera as a personal journal...
I remember that! It always bugs (no pun intended) my family when we're watching a movie and a PDA is used. I always yell out things like "iPAQ 3888 with a compact flash sleeve and 1.3 megapixel CF camera!"

[Brad Adrian]

Actually that incorrect! He was using a Treo 270! FYI, the Treo 300 is CDMA and thus does not have a sim card...;)
I stand corrected. I'm impressed that you could notice all of that. Good call!

[Brad Adrian]

It is fun taking a walk down memory lane though.
I agree. I don't want to take this off-topic, but I remember how impressed I was with the specs of my first Jornada. I also remember wondering if it was worth the extra $50 to get the 32MB model instead of the 16MB model!

[Cypher]

OK, c'mon guys. What's wrong with you that you aren't able to recognize the OEM and model number of a Pocket PC that you barely catch a glimpse of in a motion picture? (Yes, I know that's what "pause" is for on the DVD player.)

Anyway, kudos to the person who correctly recognizes the Jornada 430se in "The World is Not Enough". He's right, it's a "Palm-sized PC", not a Pocket PC.

In "Sum of All Fears", Jack Ryan used two different PDAs: The first was a Casio e125 for maps and such. The "wet-work" specialist he's with quips "I gotta get me one of those. I don't even have e-mail." Later he used a Palm i705 which actually belongs to his boss (who was killed in the bomb blast) to communicate via instant messaging to his Russian counterpart. (It did have built-in IM, but I'd suspect the emp would have fried it and background rads would play havoc with reception anyway.)

[Jon Westfall]

Just pointing out that this is one of the most interesting and active "Sunday Morning Threads" I've seen. This one rivals Steven's Squirrel Incident (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23035) from January.

Oh, and as for the glimpses of a PPC shown for 1 second in a movie... this just means that (obviously) Hollywood is in the pockets of Palm!

[Ryan Joseph]

In Eight Legged Freaks the kid uses an iPAQ with a CF Camera as a personal journal...
I remember that! It always bugs (no pun intended) my family when we're watching a movie and a PDA is used. I always yell out things like "iPAQ 3888 with a compact flash sleeve and 1.3 megapixel CF camera!"

Ha ha! :lol: I do the same thing! I even said that in Borne Supremacy. And yes, it drives my family/friends nuts, too. :D

[mara6]

In Eight Legged Freaks the kid uses an iPAQ with a CF Camera as a personal journal...
I remember that! It always bugs (no pun intended) my family when we're watching a movie and a PDA is used. I always yell out things like "iPAQ 3888 with a compact flash sleeve and 1.3 megapixel CF camera!"

Ha ha! :lol: I do the same thing! I even said that in Borne Supremacy. And yes, it drives my family/friends nuts, too. :D

Me Three!

Brad, when I was watching 8-legged freaks, I jumped out of the couch and pointed at the TV yelling the model and stuff. My family thought I was just making up the name (iPAQ sounded funny to them) and model. :roll:

[chefz]

Just tonight, while watching the miniseries The 4400 on USA, one of the homeland security agents uses an IPAQ 3000 series Pocket PC to recite facts on a member of the 4400 after they get blown up. Just kind of funny to read this thread, then go watch TV and see one right away :wink:

Chefz :D

[kosmicki]

Just tonight, while watching the miniseries The 4400 on USA, one of the homeland security agents uses an IPAQ 3000 series Pocket PC to recite facts on a member of the 4400 after they get blown up. Just kind of funny to read this thread, then go watch TV and see one right away :wink:

Chefz :D

I just saw that... Musta been looking away at the time. Recorded it for someone else. Gonna have to go back and find it now :P

[wocket]

Big Fat Liar!

There was an iPAQ there... :-)

Carlo

I just watched it to see if there was, and I didn't see any handheld at all! The closest thing I saw was the tape recorder in the court room. :roll:

Yeah there was it belonged to the Director and the kids stole it of him to get his schedule it was one of the iPAQ 3600 series.

imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265298/) for description of film

[powder2000]

In "Sum of All Fears", Jack Ryan used two different PDAs: The first was a Casio e125 for maps and such. The "wet-work" specialist he's with quips "I gotta get me one of those. I don't even have e-mail." Later he used a Palm i705 which actually belongs to his boss (who was killed in the bomb blast) to communicate via instant messaging to his Russian counterpart. (It did have built-in IM, but I'd suspect the emp would have fried it and background rads would play havoc with reception anyway.)

Maybe it's just because that is my main unit but I am pretty sure it was the eg-800 he used. Maybe I need to watch the movie again :roll:

[mara6]

WOW! I thought he was talking about Liar Liar with Jim Carey, not Big Fat Liar. :lol:
Big Fat Liar!

There was an iPAQ there... :-)

Carlo

I just watched it to see if there was, and I didn't see any handheld at all! The closest thing I saw was the tape recorder in the court room. :roll:

Yeah there was it belonged to the Director and the kids stole it of him to get his schedule it was one of the iPAQ 3600 series.

imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265298/) for description of film

[rocky_raher]

A while ago I read a thread (don't remember which forum, unfortuately, and my search for it was unsuccessful) about when was the _earliest_ use of a PDA in film or TV. The thread's conclusion was that it was the 1987 British TV series "Star Cops." It was about a police force patroling space stations and moon bases. The main character had a talking PDA named "Box." Interestingly, he was the only character with a PDA! He mentioned once that it was an early prototype, which he had acquired via family connections. Everyone he met in space was quite impressed with it, as they'd never seen a PDA before.

I know of an earlier occurance. In the 1980 TV movie version of "Brave New World," everyone had an electronic calendar. To illustrate how promiscuous the society was, whenever two people of opposite gender met, they'd pull out their organizers and arrange a date for them to "engage."

[johncruise]

In "Sum of All Fears", Jack Ryan used two different PDAs: The first was a Casio e125 for maps and such. The "wet-work" specialist he's with quips "I gotta get me one of those. I don't even have e-mail." Later he used a Palm i705 which actually belongs to his boss (who was killed in the bomb blast) to communicate via instant messaging to his Russian counterpart. (It did have built-in IM, but I'd suspect the emp would have fried it and background rads would play havoc with reception anyway.)

Maybe it's just because that is my main unit but I am pretty sure it was the eg-800 he used. Maybe I need to watch the movie again :roll:

Actually, you are correct. The one he used in the sub is the industrial Cassiopeia... EG-800. The one he used inside the car is an E-125 (used for chatting).

[Duncan]

A while ago I read a thread (don't remember which forum, unfortuately, and my search for it was unsuccessful) about when was the _earliest_ use of a PDA in film or TV. The thread's conclusion was that it was the 1987 British TV series "Star Cops."

If we expand to radio - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy preceded it by some way. The TV series was 1981 wasn't it?

[Cypher]

You're half right. Ryan used the eg800 (the ruggedized version of the e125) on the "fishing boat". (It wasn't a sub.) You can tell because of the dark blue (rather than silver) finish and the odd green color of the tip of the stylus.

I'm sure the one he used inside the car wasn't an e125. I used to have one and the one he's using is too rounded. It also has an antenna of some sort. However, it's not a Palm i705 like I thought. (The antenna is wrong and the screen shots show what looks like some version of Windows CE software. (He does some sort of circular gesture on the "Reply" button and gets a pop-up menu that has Today, Calendar, Contacts, Messenger, Files, Address, Mail, and Tasks. The pull down for the Mail folder reads "Inbox".)

So, bottom line: I don't actually know what PDA he's using in the car (The one that belongs to Cabott.) but you're right that the one he uses (that Clark comments upon) is an eg800.

Now excuse me, but I'm right in the middle of sending in corrections to "The Nit-Pickers Guide to ST:TNG." :)


In "Sum of All Fears", Jack Ryan used two different PDAs: The first was a Casio e125 for maps and such. The "wet-work" specialist he's with quips "I gotta get me one of those. I don't even have e-mail." Later he used a Palm i705 which actually belongs to his boss (who was killed in the bomb blast) to communicate via instant messaging to his Russian counterpart. (It did have built-in IM, but I'd suspect the emp would have fried it and background rads would play havoc with reception anyway.)

Maybe it's just because that is my main unit but I am pretty sure it was the eg-800 he used. Maybe I need to watch the movie again :roll:

Actually, you are correct. The one he used in the sub is the industrial Cassiopeia... EG-800. The one he used inside the car is an E-125 (used for chatting).

[[Cruzer]]

well its not a movie.. but you guys remember "Jake 2.0" TV series. They
used an HP 41XX. It belonged to the girl who he had feeling for and
turned out to be the boss leader person.

RC

[nootrak4]

i know this maybe stuped question, but is there such software that can scan things?

[Ryan Joseph]

Sigh. Here's another example of Palm's media presence and, dare I say it...propoganda.

Has anyone else seen this yet?

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808472470

:| :evil:

[mara6]

Sigh. Here's another example of Palm's media presence and, dare I say it...propoganda.

Has anyone else seen this yet?

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808472470

:| :evil:

It's been mentioned... :?

[Johnathan]

yeah,very intersting,I hope this will use in all PPCs in the future :devilboy:

[funngunn2]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet (kinda skipped to the last page), but Dr. McKay (the Canadian scientist on the team) from Stargate Atlantis uses an iPAQ 5555 around the Atlantis base. I've also seen (among the Dells) PPCs with Stowaways sitting next to some of the ancient devices.

It's rather interesting, seeing the Stargate technology, and a Dell sitting next to it. :wink:

[kyrkesmith]

There's a iPaq 5550 in Paycheck, used by the secretary in the FBI office. It's even got the foldable keyboard attached.

[Cybrid]

Ben Affleck uses a PDA in 'The sum of all fears'. I think it was one of those old Jornadas, but I'm not sure.

I've also seen several PDA's on ER.
Casio E-125 and EG-800 by the "Jack Ryan" character...BTW neither of which are "hardened" against EMP's a nuke woulda killed them and the cellphone/networks he was using.....

[Cybrid]

Yeah I thinking about this the other night. How many different shows, movies etc pocket pc's appear.

Two and a half men (TV Show Charlie Sheen) two HP iPAQ 5500 appear for instance

James Bond used a HP Jornada I think can't remember which film though.Dell X5's, the guy and ex-wife "synchronize" their schedules

[Cybrid]

I've seen the movie Out of Time with Denzel Washington recently, there's an iPAQ 5xxx something that has GPS functionality (without any add-on :)) and helps them to track down the "bad guy".
No, It was accessing another GPS's output through the internet? He was looking at the location where his deputy was......

[Cybrid]

In Eight Legged Freaks the kid uses an iPAQ with a CF Camera as a personal journal type thing and he records every thing he sees. Then he syncs it up with his computer. :wink:

I think this is the best movie that uses a Pocket PC, because everything (i think) was accurate. :lol:
One of my all time favorite for that one reason alone...
I have my old e-125 and camera still and yeah!baby!

[noahoo]

I just saw "The Forbidden Planet" 1956 on AMC. The astonaunts used PPCs in the movie. It was really cool! They were able to retrieve all kinds of info about past events. Great Movie!

[SassKwatch]

The Tungsten C will feature heavily in Britanny Murphy's next movie - Little Black Book due out soon.

And anyone looking at the durn gadgets in such circumstances *REALLY* needs to........

GET A LIFE!!!!!!

:mrgreen:

[bnycastro]

The movie: BIG FAT LIAR

The Producer uses an Compaq 36xx I think, for schedules and stuff.