The end result is not a single, hybrid device, but a bewildering array of devices that populate the entire spectrum between phone and PDA.
They can also flop and distract from the job of getting your core collection better known.PhonesTHE smartphone combining all the smarts of a personal digital assistant (PDA) including e-mail, web browser, MP3 player and digital camera plus the benefits of a third-generation mobile phone is fast becoming the gizmo of choice for cutting-edge users in Asia, Europe and North America.
IS IT time to declare the demise of the handheld computer, also known as the personal digital assistant (PDA)?
They believe that the market is now ready to embrace the tablet PC, a cross between a lightweight notebook computer and a large PDA (personal digital assistant).
Then the two categories began to overlap, with devices such as the Sony Ericsson P900 (a phone with PDA functions) and the Treo (a PDA with a built-in phone).
If such gizmos were networked, it would be possible to have, say, just one keypad for a mobile phone, an MP3 music player and a PDA.
THE election of Samuel Moreno as Bogotá's mayor in 2007 was a proud moment for Colombia's centre-left party, the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA).
From its start in 1996, Palm single-handedly generated the personal digital assistant (PDA) craze, succeeding where many had failed before, and it is now leading a drive into the new wireless world.
A person with a Bluetooth-equipped PDA could walk through Grand Central Station and unknowingly join and quit dozens of ad hoc networks between street and platform.
Or he could play a quick bout of a shoot-'em-up video game on his PDA with a passenger across the aisle.
The PDA would instantly sense the different devices around it.
