It's no surprise that companies are integrating PDAs and cellular telephones; each deviceoffers functions that complement the other and many people carry and use both. This integration, although desirable, pits the small, lightweight phone?s appeal against the desirability of a PDA with a large screen and qwerty keyboard. Today?s integrated devices address this tension much better than earlier devices such as the Qualcomm (now Kyocera) pdQ 1900 Smartphone, which was 9.6 x 2.6 x 1.4 in. and weighed 9.8 oz. when it was introduced in 1999. In this month?s column, we review four of the newest devices. Please continue to send us your comments about new and exciting products our readersmight be interested in. Our email address is pvcproducts@computer.org. --Keith Farkas and Guerney Hunt
Citation:
"New Products," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 20-21, Apr.-June 2003, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2003.10004
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