A PDA (personal digital assistant) is a term which is used for any small mobile hand-held device that provides computing and information storage and retrieval capabilities for personal or business use.
Most rugged PDAs have a small keyboard and some PDAs have an electronically sensitive pad on which handwriting can be received. Typical uses have included schedule and address book storage and retrieval, note-entering, telephones and paging systems.
Traditionally, PDAs have not been rugged devices and hardware failures have been common in demanding environments. Increasingly, PDAs are being manufactured which are more rugged (IP54-rated) and have improved functionality. Features now include barcode scanning, WLAN and bluetooth communication and GPS.
Applications are normally written for rugged PDAs in Windows Mobile® and Win CE.Net TM.
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