Personal communicator

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The term personal communicator has been used with several meanings. Around 1990 the next generation digital mobile phones were called personal communicators. Another definition is for a category of handheld devices that provide personal information manager functions and packet switched wireless data communications capabilities over wireless wide area networks such as cellular networks.

[edit] See also

• AT&T EO Personal Communicator, 1993
• IBM Simon Personal Communicator, 1994
• Wireless PDA
• Smartphone

[edit] External links

• Concept genesis, 1991
• EO Inc. Describes 'Personal Communicator' Devices, New York Times,1992
• Motorola expands family of personal communicator products, Mobile Phone News,1993
• Bellsouth, IBM unveil personal communicator phone, Mobile Phone News,1993
• The EO 440 And EO 880 Paradigms For Personal Communicators, Mobile Computing,1993
• The Return of the PDA, Marketing Computers,1995