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Encyclopedia: Personal digital assistant

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. PDAs are also known as pocket computers or palmtop computers. PDAs have many uses: calculation, use as a clock and calendar, playing computer games, accessing the Internet, sending and receiving E-mails, video recording, typewriting and word processing, use as an address book, making and writing on spreadsheets, use as a radio or stereo, and Global Positioning System (GPS). Newer PDAs also have both color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones (smartphones), web browsers, or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi, or Wireless Wide-Area Networks (WWANs). One of the most significant PDA characteristic is the presence of a touch screen.

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How to say "Personal digital assistant" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	PDA
	(Japanese)	携帯情報端末
	(German)	Personal Digital Assistant
	(Spanish)	PDA
	(French)	Assistant personnel
	(Italian)	Palmare

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Group Sense PDA

Group Sense PDA Limited ( GSPDA ) is a Chinese manufacturer of personal digital assistants and smartphones. GSPDA is owned by Group Sense and based in Hong Kong. One of its product lines is the Xplore series of personal digital assistants. References Each of the following refereces were retrieved...

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Blackberry (disambiguation)

The term blackberry can refer to: Blackberry, a kind of fruit BlackBerry, a personal digital assistant Blackberry, the name of a rabbit in the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams...

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Pocket viewer

Pocket Viewer is a model range of Personal Digital Assistants developed by Casio. Early models use Intel x86 based processors (manufactured by NEC) and latest models use Hitachi processors from SH3 family. Both run under CASIO OS...

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EPOC

EPOC is the general name of a family of operating systems for personal digital assistants (PDAs), produced first by Psion and now developed by a spin-off, Symbian. The name EPOC, claimed to stand for Electronic Piece Of Cheese, is deprecated, and the name Symbian OS is preferred...

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Mobile computer

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Mobile computing

Mobile Computing is a generic term describing the application of small, portable, and wireless computing and communication devices. This includes devices like Laptops with Wireless LAN technology, Mobile phones, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with Bluetooth or IRDA interfaces. Related...

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PDA

PDA may stand for: Personal Digital Assistant, a type of handheld computer. Public display of affection, an area of study within social psychology. Patent ductus arteriosus, a medical term referring to a congenital defect where the ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth. Pushdown automaton...

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Personal organizer

A personal organizer or planner is a small book usually containing a calendar, address book, and space for notes used to keep track of appointments or other plans. Paper and binder personal organizers have been increasingly supplanted by electronic personal digital assistants (PDA). Some personal...

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REX 5000

The REX 5000 was a Personal Digital Assistant the size of a credit card. The entire computer is a PC Card (PCMCIA). The main drawback with the REX 5000 is that it is basically without input possibilities except for the four buttons. This was solved in REX 6000 by giving it a touch screen...

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