Discussing PDA's

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Project Overview
A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a small, mobile, handheld device that provides computing and information storage and retrieval capabilities [29]. There are a variety of PDA’s available for use. The three most common mobile devices include:

1.1.1 Pocket PC
o “A Pocket PC is a handheld device that enables you to store and retrieve e-mail, contacts, appointments, play multimedia files, games, exchange text messages with MSN Messenger, browse the Web, and more. You can exchange, or synchronize, information with a desktop computer [70].”

1.1.2 Palmtop
o “A palmtop is a small computer that will literally fit in your palm of your hand. Compared to full-size computers, palmtops are severely limited, but they are practical for certain functions such as phone books, calendars and email. Some also have word processors. Spreadsheets etc. Palmtop’s normally do no more than provide address book and calendaring functional...