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ARTICLES RELATED TO Personal digital assistant - Synchronization | | | |  Personal digital assistant - Synchronization: Encyclopedia II - Personal digital assistant - Functionality
Personal digital assistant - Touch screen.
Practically all PDAs features a touch screen for user interaction, having only a few buttons usually reserved for shortcuts to oftenly used programs. The PDAs usually have a detachable stylus that can be used on the touch screen. Interaction is then done by tapping the screen to activate buttons or menu choices, and dragging the stylus to for example highlight text.
Text input is usually done in one of two ways:
Using a virtual keyboard, where a keybo ...
See also:Personal digital assistant, Personal digital assistant - Functionality, Personal digital assistant - Touch screen, Personal digital assistant - Synchronization, Personal digital assistant - Customization, Personal digital assistant - Other functionality, Personal digital assistant - Overview, Personal digital assistant - History, Personal digital assistant - OS, Personal digital assistant - Architecture, Personal digital assistant - Increasing popularity, Personal digital assistant - Popular PDAs Read more here: » Personal digital assistant: Encyclopedia II - Personal digital assistant - Functionality |
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| | | | Personal digital assistant - Synchronization: Encyclopedia II - Personal digital assistant - Increasing popularity According to a Gartner market study, the overall market for PDAs grew by 20.7% in the third quarter (Q3) of 2005, compared to Q3 2004, with marketshare resolving as follows (by operating system):
Palm OS for Palm, Inc. PDAs and some other licensees- 14.9% (declining)
Windows Mobile for PDAs that comply with the Microsoft's Pocket PC specifications - 49.2% (increasing)
BlackBerry OS for BlackBerry PDA (produced by Research In Motion) - 25.0% (increasing)
Symbian OS - 5.8% (increasing)
Various o ...
See also:Personal digital assistant, Personal digital assistant - Functionality, Personal digital assistant - Touch screen, Personal digital assistant - Synchronization, Personal digital assistant - Customization, Personal digital assistant - Other functionality, Personal digital assistant - Overview, Personal digital assistant - History, Personal digital assistant - OS, Personal digital assistant - Architecture, Personal digital assistant - Increasing popularity, Personal digital assistant - Popular PDAs Read more here: » Personal digital assistant: Encyclopedia II - Personal digital assistant - Increasing popularity |
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Personal digital assistant - History.
The term "personal digital assistant" was coined on January 7, 1992 by John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. Earlier devices like the Psion and Sharp Wizard already had the functionality to be considered PDAs, however. In fact, PDAs by other names were available as early as the mid-1970s -- first as very advanced calculators, the ...
See also:Personal digital assistant, Personal digital assistant - Functionality, Personal digital assistant - Touch screen, Personal digital assistant - Synchronization, Personal digital assistant - Customization, Personal digital assistant - Other functionality, Personal digital assistant - Overview, Personal digital assistant - History, Personal digital assistant - OS, Personal digital assistant - Architecture, Personal digital assistant - Increasing popularity, Personal digital assistant - Popular PDAs Read more here: » Personal digital assistant: Encyclopedia II - Personal digital assistant - Overview |
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