Who Or What Is A Personal Digital Assistant? A personal digital assistant or PDA is an electronic device a lot like a normal laptop computer, but smaller, normally the size of a book or magazine. They are like diaries or organizers but a lot more capable. They can be Wi-Fi-enabled in order to transmit and receive files, send and receive email and go on the Internet. in fact, not all PDA's are exactly the same size or have the same features, but they are all quite similar. People use them for taking notes, recording lectures, doing homework, writing articles and reminding themselves of appointments among a hundred and one other things. The PDA is the tool of preference for people leading a busy career. Some PDA's have full Internet access and others will allow you to connect to a laptop or desktop computer in order to download or upload files for processing later. With these machines, you may download all your email, for instance, process it on the bus or the train on the way to the office and then plug your PDA into your office computer to send them when you arrive in the office. More sophisticated PDA's will also connect to your office and home computers, but will actually go on the Net independently. This means that you should synchronize your home and office computers with your PDA so that all your files and computers have the same copies of all your data. MS Windows has been using this concept for numerous years and named it 'Briefcase'. The electronic briefcase is now reality and has been for a time. In fact, the laptop was the original PDA and what you can buy now as a PDA is a cut-down version of the laptop-cum-notebook computer. Some PDA's are really like notebooks in that you are able to write on the touch sensitive screen. A software program will read your handwriting, after being taught it, and transcribe it into typed text. It can also convert typed text into your handwriting. Setting this feature of the PDA up may be fairly tiresome though with numerous errors taking place in the early days. The PDA is like a desktop with all the devices that you would imagine to find there and near it, like a pen and pad, a calculator, a diary, a to-do-list, a calendar, a phone book, an address book and even a mobile phone or even VOIP, if it is connected to the Internet. Apart from these 'physical' desktop items, the PDA will almost certainly have a database and the ability to read ebooks. Some PDA's will also record voice messages, take photos and even read ebooks and messages back to you. A PDA is a most useful item if you have need of one. They are handier than a laptop and lighter. They are not a substitute for a computer but rather should be regarded as an accessory to a computer to save you lugging the computer about.
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