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The history of Personal Digital Assistants 1980 – 2000

Posted on 10 April 2009 by Alexander Viken

Psion netBook of Y2K

Psion netBook of Y2K

What’s now called a smartmobile, smartphone or pocket pc was once called a PDA – it was a Personal Digital Assistant and part from Psion’s first attempt in 1984, no one has had any real success until Apple launched the iPhone. As a curiosity in this day of buzzword technology – Psion released a netBook in March 2000. The first netbook, as they were first with the PDA? Exciting to see the result on the oncoming counter suit from Psion for Intel’s use of the term “netbook”

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About the author, Alexander Viken
Working as Chief Mobility Consultant at Creuna Norway. I received MSFT MVP for Device Application Development in June 2010 and are interested in mobility trends, the market, technology, software development for Windows Phone, iOS and Android mostly, but not exclusively. Scrum master that fights to keep it lean.
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