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A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver, HT, or handheld radio, is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, Henryk Magnuski and engineering teams at Motorola. First used for infantry, similar ...
An iPhone 3GS and iPad - two examples of mobile devices. A mobile device or handheld device is a computer small enough to hold and operate in hand. Mobile devices are typically battery-powered and possess a flat-panel display and one or more built-in input devices, such as a touchscreen or keypad.
In the early 1990s, IBM engineer Frank Canova considered that chip-and-wireless technology was becoming small enough to use in handheld devices. [5] The first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone" began as a prototype called "Angler" developed by Canova in 1992 while at IBM and demonstrated in ...
BlackBerry is a line of wireless handheld devices first introduced in 1996 [1] and manufactured by the Canadian company BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM). Early pager models [ edit ]
In electronics, a remote control (also known as a remote or clicker [1]) is an electronic device used to operate another device from a distance, usually wirelessly. In consumer electronics, a remote control can be used to operate devices such as a television set, DVD player or other digital home media appliance. A remote control can allow ...
Mylo, standing for "My Life Online", is a pocket-sized handheld device created and marketed by Sony for instant messaging and other Internet-based communications like browsing Internet web sites using the Opera web browser, [1] and playback and sharing of media files.
A Bluetooth keyboard is a wireless keyboard that connects and communicates with its parent device via the Bluetooth protocol. These devices are widely used with portable devices such as smart phones and tablets, though they are also used with laptops and ultrabooks. Bluetooth keyboards became popular in 2011, coinciding with the popularity of ...
Connected devices may refer to: Smart device, an autonomous electronic device that may be connect to others in a network; Mobile device, a computing device typically small enough to be handheld Mobile Internet device, a multimedia-capable mobile device providing wireless Internet access