Talk:Personal digital assistant
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[edit] Ruggedized PDAs Removed?
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Italic text'Italic text The most recent edit removed the whole section on Reggedized PDAs yet left the heading. Any idea why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Personal_digital_assistant&diff=97880132&oldid=97880083 Looks like vandalism to me. 69.23.67.8 23:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Epoc
i think Epoc (the OS used on psion PDAs) should be added to the list of operating systems, seeing as linux is on the list and there is currently more psion PDAs still in use than Linux ones
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.106.72.6 (talk) 15:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Ugh its like holding a small book to your head
I removed the line "Ugh its like holding a small book to your head." for the following reasons
- I have never heard the word "Ugh" in an article (i have)
- It should be "it's" not "its"
- Since when have PDAs been held to one's head?
If anyone objects then please revert the page MichaelBillington 06:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Since PDA devices incorporated mobile phone technology... AndyyE 19:03, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Old talk
Other terms : Handheld PC.
Why doesn't Microbrowser convert into a link?
[edit] PADD
The Star Trek PADD is said to have been one of the inspirations for PDAs user:ted-m 6-6-2005
- Hmm, that's an interesting observation. On a related note, I remember Jake Sisko in DS9 writing a novel using a PADD with a Palm-style freehand area below a text display, so it's been a nice two-way exchange. BTW, you can make the Wikipedia automatically sign your posts by entering four of these things in a row: ~ . Thus: Sockatume 03:09, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- Considering the first PADD was seen in Encounter at Farpoint in 1987, and the first flat calculator-like PDA was in 1978, it is not likely the former influenced the latter. Corvus 19:23, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "PDAs plus full-size keyboards"
Over in Talk:Laptop, I've been chatting about things like the Cambridge Z88, and the TRS-80 Model 100 line, and the AlphaSmart Dana, and the Atari Portfolio. They don't quite match up with current perception of laptop computers -- they are instant on, have long battery life, can't run Windows, etc. I think of them as "PDAs plus full-size keyboards". This personal digital assistant article claims that the Dana is a PDA, and those other devices seem to me to be very similar to the Dana. So, should I tag them all with Category:PDAs, or would it better to make some other sub-category of Category:Portable_computers to put them in? --DavidCary 15:23, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Please note that smartphones have full pledged OSs(Windows CE, Symbian, Linux). There is also an Information appliances article that are charactized by their 'smartness ' and touchscreen. There is also a handheld device article... Does the keyboard characterize portable computers?--Jondel 04:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Other purposes
I don't think all modern PDAs support game emulation software. Somebody should denote what brand of PDA dosen't support it, and other purposes. Nobody wants to buy the wrong PDA for the wrong reason as some PDAs are not as versatile as others. --Nintendude 09:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)jkjkj
[edit] Cleaned up a bit and stuff
I removed the old comments, I hope people don't mind. (If you think any of the comments are still relevant, just add them back.) Anyway, I think the link sections still need some kind of cleanup, there are still too many links IMHO. Also I'm not sure if all the info in the overview section is necessary, in particular the section which I've named "Increasing popularity". Not sure about "Popular PDAs" either, this section should maybe just link to some of the most known? But the "History" part could probably be longer, although I don't know much about the history myself.
PS: If someone works on the "See also" section, consider adding Handheld PC. --Mythril 19:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page. It is customary to archive, not delete, talk pages.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:24, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other purposes
I don't think all modern PDAs support game emulation software. Somebody should denote what brand of PDA dosen't support it, and other purposes. Nobody wants to buy the wrong PDA for the wrong reason as some PDAs are not as versatile as others. --Nintendude 09:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- Removed the mention of emulators, as it's not really useful to the article.--Mythril 19:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Study details needed
While not necessarily inaccurate, these numbers don't mean much in isolation. For instance, the numbers alone do not indicate if all Palm OS-running handhelds and phones were compared to all Windows CE-running handhelds and phones, or if the comparison was single-function PDAs alone (not including smartphones). If I am right about which study is being referred to here, the study excluded smartphones -- which would include Palm's most popular line, the Treo. -- Steven Fisher 19:41, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Overview: History
Is Palms/Palm Pilots really used as a generic term for PDAs? First I've heard of it. 86.132.0.242 01:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
At least in holland it is. And since palm used to be THE pda it seems likely that many people still refer to their pda as palm. Besides palm sounds cool, pda sounds sort of nerdy to me.
It's not used in the same extent that a "PC" is always considered based on Windows unless otherwise noted (eg Linux PC) but fairly often used for any kind of PDA.
Yes, people do overgeneralize with Palm (here in California). I've often thought it was my duty (as a PC technician) to inform people that the generic term was PDA, not 'Palm'. The interesting thing is that I never heard it called 'Personal Digital Assistant'. It was always 'Personal Data Assistant'. Just do a Google, you'll see many (though a minority, a significant minority) use 'Data' instead of 'Digital'. Odd, I wonder where the reference to 'Data' came from. PDA, Nerdy? I disagree! :-)
[edit] "Struddle my Noodle"
Pointless. Use the Sandbox instead. I deleted it.
[edit] PalmOne --> Palm
Does this need changing?
[edit] PDA Watches
Is there room in this article to add a short discussion of PDA watches, or would that go better somewhere else?
I'm thinking of things like the original Timex Data Link, which I think was one of the first organizer watches. It also used that blinky CRT method to download data, which made it sort of interesting. I'm just not sure where it goes.
[edit] Educational - POV
The educational section reads like it was copied from an advertisement. Han-Kwang 09:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gramnmar
Can people please remember that the correct plural is "PDAs", not "PDA's"? The apostrophe should not be there. --Tiberius47 04:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
