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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]
Europe To Get Microsoft Smartphone Before US
News Among its PDA-like features are Web and WAP browsers, digital music player, USB, IrDA and serial connectivity and a Multimedia Card/Secure Digital Card slot for memory expansion. The main competition for Smartphone 2002 is the Symbian OS, which has...
[March 19, 2002, 12:58]
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. The Symbian OS is making its debut in the US market in the form of the Nokia 9290 Communicator in the first half of this year...
[March 18, 2002, 16:16]
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]
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. Linux may make Cobalt, the latest Palm OS, more attractive to some licensees...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
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. At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona he said: "In the US, the...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
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. The most serious competition so far is the Symbian OS...
[September 23, 2003, 9:45]
T-Mobile Rolls Out Voice-enabled BlackBerry
News Later this year O2 will launch the Xda (read the ZDNet UK review), which is based on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system and puts browser, phone and organiser features into a PDA form factor. Handspring offers colour and black-and-white...
[June 13, 2002, 13:26]
MS Targets Smart Phones, Pagers
News The growth of the phone and pager markets is expected to eclipse that of the PDA market in the next five years, according to analysts. Taiwan-based HTC will join Samsung, Sendo and Mitsubishi Electric as manufacturers of Stinger, which is...
[March 21, 2001, 8:32]
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 Tues 19 Feb: Symbian OS 7.0, announced at 3GSM, means we will soon be seeing mobile...
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
HTC Goes It Alone With Windows Smartphones
News The TyTN (previously codenamed Hermes) is the first tri-band 3G Windows Mobile PDA, and the MTeoR (aka Breeze) is a 3G-enabled smartphone. A major competitor to Microsoft’s phone OS could also be Linux, after six major players agreed this week to...
[June 16, 2006, 11:00]
PalmSource Eyes Souped-up Device Size
News People recognise that if you have a PDA and you want to make some notes, you turn it on and it is on. The Series 7 used Psion's Epoc operating system, which has now evolved into the Symbian OS used in smartphones, while HP's devices used Windows CE.
[September 24, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft Smartphone Ships To Developers
News Among its PDA-like features are Web and WAP browsers, digital music player, Java support USB, IrDA and serial connectivity and a Multimedia Card/Secure Digital Card slot for memory expansion. The main competition for the Smartphone 2002 platform is...
[June 5, 2002, 16:32]
US History Study Guide
Downloads Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC). No matter which device you use (Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Blackberry, or Desktop), you will NOT lose any functionality. The guide is a standard on the subject and covers...
[December 16, 2006, 1:32]
The PDA: It's Not Dead Yet
News Garner blames the stagnant US market on the continuing decline in Palm OS PDA shipments and aging product lines among Microsoft licensees. Falling prices and wireless connectivity have breathed new life into the PDA market, with sales so far this...
[August 3, 2005, 9:30]
Palm Hit By PalmSource Delays
News Palm on Friday warned investors that development delays by PalmSource on Palm's next operating system have hurt the hardware maker's ability to compete in the smartphone and PDA markets. The annual report made it clear to investors that the...
[August 1, 2006, 9:40]
Patent And Event Reignite IPhone Rumours
News Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March, for a "multifunctional handheld device", that can switch between a music player, phone or PDA, among other things, using a touchscreen with "at...
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
News Roundup: Bluetooth Ache Means Wireless Woe
News Thu, 22 Mar The Mitac Cat PDA will feature Bluetooth connectivity in addition to its fast, mobile, Linux-based OS for less than $200 In Hannover last month, at the World's largest trade show, manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson and...
[April 6, 2001, 10:16]
PDA Price War Looms On The Horizon
News If the price cuts hit Europe it will add to the difficulties of handheld makers such as Psion, which are struggling to develop the European wireless PDA market. Psion and handset makers like Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola have pinned their PDA hopes...
[April 12, 2001, 7:40]
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]
