4. Palmtop Computer or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Palmtop
Movie: 4. Palmtop Computers.
This type of computer is increasing in popularity, and is often called a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).
A palmtop computer is small enough to fit in your pocket.
It combines a lot of capabilities, including organiser features (such as storing contact numbers, names and addresses, etc.), e-mail and wireless internet access.
Palmtop's have small keyboards and most let you open menus and select icons by using a special pen or stylus. Most let you enter data by writing with the stylus. They are powered by batteries and store their data on removable memory units called flash cards.
You can run a wide range of software on palmtop's, for example simple word processing, database and spreadsheet software as well as useful applications such as electronic diaries. Many modern palmtop's:
are converging with mobile phones to let you access the internet
have wireless communications to let you access your local area network.