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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback I notice reading previous comments that opinions are more emotional reactions than rational objectivly proven facts (I'm a psychologist, not a PDA specialist). I am coming back to Palm now because with Palm Handheld T, they get closer to Pocket PC...
[January 28, 2005, 12:32]
Microsoft Pries Open PDA Clamshells
News Through several upgrades, which saw the OS split in two to address the increasingly popular PDA market, Handheld PC found its market niche, and the latest features address those customers. The devices, launched nearly four years ago, were supposed...
[September 7, 2000, 9:58]
Symbian Rallies Developers Against Microsoft
News Two new versions of Windows CE arriving this year are designed for voice-enabled handheld computers and mobile phones with PDA functions, respectively called Pocket PC Voice Edition and Windows Powered Smartphone 2002.
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003 review
Reviews DataViz's Documents To Go enables you to view and edit desktop documents on your handheld without converting them first to a PDA-specific format, and the latest version offers native support for Word and Excel.
[February 26, 2004, 11:25]
GoDB
Downloads Applications developed once on the GoDB platform run on all PDA devices ranging from Pocket PC, Palm, Simputer, Laptops, Desktops, and operating systems like Palm OS, Linux, and Windows. GoDB applications can be designed to be offline or online PDA...
[July 30, 2004, 15:16]
Orange Rolls Out Its First Wireless PDA
News The M1000 is based on a reference design from Taiwan contract manufacturer High Tech Computer (HTC), and is similar to O2's HTC-manufactured Xda II -- both double a as tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM / GPRS mobile phone and a Bluetooth-enabled...
[February 6, 2004, 12:05]
Zaurus Goes Online, But Not In UK
News Treo, BlackBerry and the Symbian OS devices are available in the UK, along with Pogo, a consumer-oriented wireless PDA/mobile phone from a British start-up. The mobile phone makers who partly own Symbian have an edge on other PDA companies because...
[April 9, 2002, 16:52]
Roundup: Palm Shifts Focus
News Fri, 09th MarPalm licencee gears up to introduce its slimline PDA with extra memory and new expansion slot Palm begins shipping new PDA Fri, 02nd Mar Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS for Jornada, announces a wireless handheld
[March 9, 2001, 7:41]
HP IPaq Takes Crown From Palm In Asia
News Not Palm OS, but proprietary systems used in low-cost products from firms based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, which have also suffered the brunt of the drop in demand that caused the PDA market shrink 22 percent in unit shipments compared with...
[June 6, 2003, 8:54]
MXI: Run Any Desktop Program On Your Handheld
News At a media conference last week, the duo showed off a Compaq iPaq PDA running desktop versions of Word, Powerpoint and Internet Explorer. Because MXI saves interim data on the PDA, you can edit a document without being online.
[June 17, 2002, 10:16]
PalmSource Pushes On With Linux Plans
News Last week the OS got its first licensee, Hong Kong-based Group Sense PDA, which said it would ship a smartphone based on Cobalt in the US by the fourth quarter of 2005. The organisation was founded two years ago by Matsushita Electric Industrial...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
Battle For The Mobile Space Heats Up
News Wed 20 Feb: From promoting its high-end clamshell PDA operating systems, Symbian is moving decidedly toward the mass market for smartphones with its latest software HP dials in Pocket PC for new handheld
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
Symbian To Get Visual Basic Support
News The company claims that with Symbian support, AppForge software will run on 90 percent of all PDA devices shipping today. Symbian OS has been around for several years in the form of EPOC, which was previously used in handheld devices from the UK's...
[March 18, 2002, 16:16]
Handhelds Make A Comeback
News The figures cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and divide handhelds into data-centric devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants) and voice-centric devices such as smartphones -- mobile phone handsets with PDA-like features.
[January 26, 2004, 15:05]
Nokia-Palm Merger Rumours Get Cool Reception
News While the rumour mill has been cranked up a gear with speculation that Nokia is interested in acquiring smartphone- and PDA-maker Palm, analysts have poured cold water on the union. He said: "Whoever acquires Palm also inherits a handheld business...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
First Look At MS 'Stinger'-based Phone
News The combination PDA and mobile phone is the latest horse in Microsoft's stable of specifications for devices, which also includes the Pocket PC platform and the soon-to-be released "feature" phone. By contrast, smart phones are more of a...
[August 10, 2000, 10:15]
Samsung Touts Turbocharged Mobile Processor
News The same trend is also taking place in the converged phone/ PDA market, where faster processors are needed to support multi-tasking, so users can toggle between different applications while making a call.
[July 22, 2003, 9:27]
Microsoft Smartphone 2003 Debuts In Taiwan
News Aside from standard phone functions, it includes the PDA-like features that are the hallmark of Microsoft's smartphone platform, including mobile versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook. Smartphone 2003, like the latest update of Pocket PC for...
[September 23, 2003, 9:45]
DoCoMo 3G Deal Makes Symbian Big In Japan
News It also contains PDA functionality, with a touch-sensitive 65K colour screen that's large enough to show 20 lines of readable text. He said that PalmSource's Palm OS, used in handheld computers and wireless devices, and even Microsoft's Windows CE...
[September 26, 2003, 12:25]
Sony To Unveil Palm OS Device At PC Expo
News Considering their strength in producing high-quality consumer electronics products, I have no doubt that Sony's entry into the PDA marketplace will spur the growth of this category," says Alan Kessler, chief operating officer of platform and...
[June 26, 2000, 14:49]
