July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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36 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing
Figure 2.4 Apple Newton MessagePad. (Courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
© Copyright 2005 Apple Computers, Inc.)
PDAs still hold a strong position in the market. The term personal
digital assistant was coined by John Sculley, then CEO of Apple
Computers, at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in 1992, when
the computer company decided to develop a product for the con-
sumer electronics market after the success of Apple’s Mac II. In 1993,
Apple released the world’s first PDA, the Newton MessagePad, which
was manufactured by Sharp (Figure 2.4). The Newton MessagePad
had an ARM610 20-MHz