Pocket-sized palmtop handheld computing device | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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00:01:37 1 Timeline summary
00:03:20 2 Market acceptance
00:05:07 2.1 Nomenclature
00:06:15 3 Comparison among alternatives
00:08:38 3.1 Non-Wintel (Palm-top/Palm-size/Pocket computer)
00:09:30 3.1.1 A list of handheld/pocket Linux computers
00:09:46 4 History
00:09:58 4.1 Palmtop PC
00:11:54 4.2 Handheld PC
00:12:53 4.3 Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
00:13:41 4.4 Personal Information Manager (PIM)
00:14:12 5 See also



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Pocket-sized computer describes the post-programmable calculator / pre-smartphone pocket-sized portable-office hardware devices that included the earlier DOS-based palmtops and subsequent Windows-CE handhelds, as well as a few other terms, primarily covering the 1980s thru 2007.
Sometimes called Pocket-sized computing devices, they were a series of internally different  devices, and included Handheld ("Pocket-sized handheld computing device"), and the earlier-introduced Palmtop
("Pocket-sized palmtop computing device") and "pocket-sized palmtop computer." The New York Times used the term "palmtop/handheld."The media called "the first computer that fits in your palm and weighs less than a pound" and its early day competitors a palmtop. Although the word "handheld" was used before Microsoft's 1996 introduction of Windows CE, a lawsuit by Palm, Inc pushed Microsoft's use of the new term Handheld PC.By 2007, the iPhone began to replace prior portable office devices, and by a decade later there were indications that "SmartGlasses" might be their replacement.