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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. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android, and thus saw a rapid decline in use after 2007.

  3. Comparison of mobile operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Linux (based on a combination of Linux MeeGo and Samsung Bada) Firefox OS / Open Web (based on Linux kernel) Linux. Linux (based on Ubuntu ) Linux (based on Debian) Linux (mainly based on KDE neon ) Linux (based on Debian) Linux (based on Alpine Linux ) Supported CPU architecture.

  4. Pocket PC - Wikipedia

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    Windows Phone (as a combined software and hardware branding) A Pocket PC ( P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs. The name was introduced by Microsoft in 2000 as a rebranding of the Palm-size PC ...

  5. Palm (PDA) - Wikipedia

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    Palm (PDA) The Palm TX from 2005. An early model—the PalmPilot Personal. Palm is a 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 ...

  6. Mobile operating system - Wikipedia

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    A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are generally not considered mobile, as they were originally designed for desktop ...

  7. Psion Series 5 - Wikipedia

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    The Psion Series 5 was a personal digital assistant (PDA) from Psion. It came in two main variants, the Series 5 (launched in 1997) and the Series 5mx (1999), the latter having a faster processor, clearer liquid crystal display (LCD), and updated software. There was also a rare Series 5mx Pro, which differed only in having the operating system ...

  8. Mobile media - Wikipedia

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    For a time, mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) were the primary source of portable media from which we could obtain information and communicate with one another. More recently, the smartphone has rendered the PDA obsolete by combining many features of the cell phone with those of the PDA.

  9. Comparison of mobile phone standards - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of mobile phone standards. Cellular network standards and generation timeline. This is a comparison of standards of wireless networking technologies for devices such as mobile phones. A new generation of cellular standards has appeared approximately every tenth year since 1G systems were introduced in 1979 and the early to mid-1980s.