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The Palm TX. A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDA's were mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of more highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android in the late 2000s, and thus saw a rapid decline.
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years.A basic PDA usually includes a clock, date book, address book, task list, memo pad and a simple calculator.
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It was provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management.
The Agenda VR3 was the name of the first "pure Linux" Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), [1] released in May 2001 by Agenda Computing, Inc. of Irvine, California. [2] The Linux Documentation Project considers the VR3 to be a "true Linux PDA" because the manufacturers installed Linux-based operating systems on them by default.
The Psion Series 3 was the first truly useful personal digital assistant (PDA). Its purpose was to replace the old-fashioned paper agenda and Rolodex , but it could do much more. Besides the agenda with multiple views, it featured a database , a word processor , a spreadsheet with charts, world times, and more.
The Newton is a specified standard and series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) developed and marketed by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1993 to 1998. An early device in the PDA category – the term itself originating with the Newton [2] – it was the first to feature handwriting recognition.
Sharp Zaurus is a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) made by Sharp Corporation. The Zaurus was the most popular PDA during the 1990s in Japan and was based on a proprietary operating system. The first Sharp PDA to use the Linux operating system was the SL-5000D, running the Qtopia-based Embedix Plus.
Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software. Palm designed the PalmPilot, [1] the first PDA successfully marketed worldwide, and was known for the Treo 600, one of the earlier successful smartphones.