Chapter 3. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs): Toshiba Pocket PC

Most of us already own desktop computers and laptops, and many own PDAs such as Palm Pilots. In the last couple of years, another version of the PDA has crept up on Palm’s market share and is becoming widely available across a number of name-brand manufacturers. The Pocket PC is offered by companies such as Audiovox, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard (HP), NEC, Toshiba, and ViewSonic. The Compaq iPAQ and HP Jornada are prime examples and have become highly popular devices in recent years. In this profile, we’ll take a look at the Toshiba Pocket PC e310 with its Pocket PC 2002 software suite. For those of you hanging on to an aging PDA, the goal here is to show some of the new functionality ...

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