ViewSonic V37 (2003): That time a monitor brand made mobile devices.
(9 June 2025) Among PDA brands, one you may not think about is ViewSonic. After all, their main business is making monitors, not personal computers or adjacent types of tech like phones, MP3 players, or PDAs. But they DID make PDAs, so what kinds of tech can a monitor maker stuff into a portable pocket device from 20 years ago?
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Software used
- Edited using DaVinci Resolve 20.0
- Thumbnails edited in Paint.NET 5.1.7 (iirc)
- Audio Recorded and Edited with Audacity 3.7.0
Music (in chronological order)
- "Beatles Unite" by Rachel K Collier
- "Pollo Loko" by Quincas Moreira
- "Morpho Diana" by Rachel K Collier
- "Know Myself" by Patrick Patrikios
- "Blue Macaw" by Quincas Moreira
Works Cited
- "ViewSonic Pocket PC V review: ViewSonic Pocket PC V", Dong Ngo, CNET. 2004 Feb. 2, accessed 2025 May 30 - 2025 June 1. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/viewsonic-pocket-pc-5-review/
- "Microsoft Launches Mobile Developer Solution Featuring .NET Compact Framework", Microsoft Source. 2003 Mar. 19, accessed 2025 May 30 - 2025 June 1. https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/03/19/microsoft-launches-mobile-developer-solution-featuring-net-compact-framework/
- "ViewSonic", Wikipedia Contributors, Wikipedia. 2025 May 17, accessed 2025 May 31 - 2025 June 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSonic
- "XScale", Wikipedia Contributors, Wikipedia. 2025 May 20, accessed 2025 May 30 - 2025 June 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
Media used
- DEC_StrongARM.jpg - CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=241552
- Dell_Axim_x51v.jpg by Jonathan Aquino, CC BY 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- Hp-ipaq-hw910.jpg by Asim18, CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- Palm_logo_2003.jpg - The logo may be obtained from Palm, Inc.., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22924391
- Typhoon_MyGuide_3500_mobile_-_controller_-_Intel_PXA255A0C300-1180.jpg © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
- Viewsonic_logo.svg.png - The logo may be obtained from ViewSonic., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26005683