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  2. Personal digital assistant - Wikipedia

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    The Palm TX. A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDAs were mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of more highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android in the late 2000s, and thus saw a rapid decline.

  3. Portable data terminal - Wikipedia

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    Typical PDT. A portable data terminal (PDT) is an electronic device that is used to enter or retrieve data via wireless transmission (WLAN or WWAN).They have also been called enterprise digital assistants (EDA), data capture mobile devices, batch terminals or just portables.

  4. Category:Personal digital assistants - Wikipedia

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    Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. A basic PDA usually includes a clock, date book, address book, task list, memo pad and a simple calculator .

  5. Digital assistant - Wikipedia

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    Personal digital assistant (PDA), a small battery-powered and very pocketable computer for personal organizational or recreational purposes; Enterprise digital assistant (EDA), a small battery-powered and very pocketable computer for business or industrial use; An embodied agent of artificial intelligence

  6. Palm (PDA) - Wikipedia

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    The Palm TX from 2005 An early model—the PalmPilot Personal. Palm is a now discontinued line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld computers," responsible for ushering in the smartphone era.

  7. Apple Newton - Wikipedia

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    An early device in the PDA category – the term itself originating with the Newton [2] – it was the first to feature handwriting recognition. Newton devices run on a proprietary operating system , Newton OS ; unlike the company's Macintosh computers, Apple licensed the software to third-parties, who released Newton devices alongside Apple's ...

  8. Dell Axim - Wikipedia

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    Dell entered the personal digital assistant (PDA) market in 2002 with the debut of the Axim X5. The base-level Axim X5 had a 300 MHz Intel XScale PXA250 processor, 32 MB RAM, 32 MB flash ROM, a Type II CompactFlash slot, an SD/MMC slot, a 16-bit QVGA (240 × 320 dots) TFT display, a speaker, a microphone, and a base price of US$279. A high-end ...

  9. Barcode reader - Wikipedia

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    A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [1] Like a flatbed scanner , it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals.