It is expected to have many applications in small consumer devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), handheld phones, power meters, and smart cards, and in security systems.
The findings concerned with momentary ecological assessment via PDAs (handheld computers) were more encouraging, although they derived from a single case report and a feasibility and validity study.
Within the healthcare population, the utilisation of smartphone and other mobile devices, such as the personal digital assistant (PDA) and handheld tablets, has the potential to have a positive impact upon patient care.
Not much larger than a Walkman, PDAs and handheld PCs (HPCs) are challenging notebook computers.
Through the first half of the 1990s, the PDAs and Handheld PCs were little more than a status symbol.
The proliferation of mobile computing devices including portable computers, PDAs and handheld devices has created a tremendous demand for wireless local area networks (WLANs).
The Toughbook U1 Essential is suited for basic mobile computing needs and is an ideal alternative to Windows Mobile ruggedized PDAs and handheld devices.
However, since smartphones are the successors of PDAs and handheld computers, the MeSH term "computers, handheld" was used in MEDLINE to index the articles with a focus on smartphones.
That fact has led to a parade of curious and occasionally truly innovative add-on keyboards that fold up, slide or are built in to handheld PDAs and wireless phone-PDA combos.
I bought a handheld pda, which promised the world - internet connection, emailing, everything.
