Introduction to Pocket PC

Pocket PC or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) is a small handheld device of a size of mobile phone and it runs the Microsoft Windows operating systems.  It has the many features of the modern desktop PC.  It enables the users to send and receive the emails, browse the web, play multimedia files, exchange text messages with the Windows live messengers.  Having powerful processor, storage capacity it is a full functional handheld outdoor computer. 

There are many manufacturers of the pocket pc such as HP, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Philips, T-Mobile, Orange, O2, ViewSonic and Fujitsu.  The main components inside the PDA includes integrated Bluetooth, flash memory, color TFT VGA display, multimedia accelerator, replacement battery, color display, built-in speaker and microphone, GSM/GPRS telephony integrated, QWERTY keyboard, integrated slide in keyboard, processor, touchpad, touch screen, integrated wireless LAN/PAN connection and hardware application buttons.  Pocket PCs are bit larger than the palm OS devices.  The pocket PC provides the following applications.

• Pocket Outlook
• Notes Application
• Task Management
• Internet Explorer
• Word, Excel and Power Point
• Calendaring
• Wireless Connectivity
• Windows Media Player
• Radio Software
• MSN and Yahoo Messengers

The most popular pocket PCs includes the following.

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Most of the PDA’s include the built-in memory that ranges from 32 to 132 MBs.  The screen is fixed portrait oriented 240 x 320 pixels.  It also includes the built in WLAN, WWAN, Infrared, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.