June 2010
Beginner to intermediate
232 pages
7h 56m
English
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oday, handheld devices or personal digital assistants (PDAs), also called palmtops or Pocket
PCs, which are all small-sized extensions of desktops, comprise the largest group of
Internet-connectable, pervasive devices available in the market. Their number is growing
by the day, and many vendors now supply a variety of these devices. These vendors include,
among others, Palm, Sony, Compaq, Dell, Toshiba, Motorola, Nokia, HP, Hyundai, etc. The market
trend is today shifting rapidly from low-end devices to those with some form of wireless connec-
tivity, whether for data or voice or both.
In this chapter, we shall dwell on the hardware aspects of ...