“The purpose of this document is to be a comprehensive timeline of the history of PDAs. Specifically, my intention is to clarify which companies premiered each of the primary front-end features that are considered standard in modern devices, as of the mid/late-1990s commoditization trend.”
Link: The evolution of the PDA: 1975 – 1995
Russell Beattie took a shot at defining the different “standard” mobile form factors. While he doesn’t provide any definitive answers, it’s nice to see some of the abstract form factors next to each other.
“These are all radically different devices, use cases and form factors. But it’s nice to sort of see them laid out like [...]
So your mobile device is loaded with reams of data. How to get the stuff back out of it? Search it, of course. It seems to me, though, that the most of the useful data on mobile devices isn’t in text form.
“One strategy for dealing with this problem is to bring search capabilities to handsets. [...]
David Pogue pans the new Samsung 800 phone. It tried to do everything and fails on all counts. The convergence meme seems to be dominating thoughts at the moment (hey, even Mr Gates is talking about it).
“Unfortunately, as the manual puts it, “Phone may not recognize the biz card due to certain circumstances: letter type, [...]
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