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Old 04-22-2007, 08:19 AM
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A nooby question

What is PDA? Does it means PocketPC or all sorts of mobile devices?
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Old 04-22-2007, 09:31 AM
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PDA means a Personal Digital Assistant - and it's generally taken to mean a touch-screen device with calendar, contacts and documents capability.

Pocket PC refers usually to the Windows Mobile powered devices.

A smartphone is a regular-shaped phone with expanded, PDA-like capabilities.
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Old 04-22-2007, 09:34 AM
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PDA means personal digital assistant and refers to a general class of handheld devices that began primarily as electronic organizers but soon became palm-size computers running fairly sophisticated software. You will find PDAs running different systems: WM, Palm, Linux, and some proprietary OSes. It is fairly common to see devices that merge phone and handheld computing functions as converged devices rather than PDAs.
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Old 04-22-2007, 12:02 PM
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So the PocketPC has a touch- screen. Can be said that it is a PDA?
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A PocketPC would be considered a type of PDA. Since PDAs come in several OS flavors, make sure any software that terms itself as installable on a PDA will run on the WM OS and also on your version. Some apps for PPC2002 cannot run on later versions and many apps for WM2003 and/or WM5 will not run on earlier versions.
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