Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about his excellent new documentary, Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone -- a history of Handspring and the creators of the original PalmPilot.

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• (That same link has Dieter’s bonus material, too, including his corrected version of Ed Colligan’s infamous December 2006 quip about the then-imminent iPhone.)

• PalmPilot

• Jeff Hawkins’s wooden prototype for getting the size right

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.