| - PDAs processing capabilites increasing to Pocket PC levels
(increasing the range of functions for PDAs well beyond simple PIM)
- the innovation of third party application developers taking the PDA
platform far beyond what was thought possible or desirable
- Pocket PCs adoptopting (or at least trying to adopt) the user
philosophy of PDAs (simplicity, wearabliity & mobility) and the core
subset of PIM functionality |
| I have been working with middle school teachers for the past year to
incorporate the use of PDAs in the classroom. We have had some success, but I
are interested in finding out what other teachers are doing with PDAs. To
assist in finding out this type of information, I have created an online
survey as the bases for the research. |
| I knew the PDA line was good, but that good? I looked back at the MAs under
discussion and found a surprising number of bad or mediocre books, but this is
still a spectacular vote of confidence for the PDAs. Wow. |
| I knew the PDA line was good, but that good? I looked back at the MAs
under discussion and found a surprising number of bad or mediocre books, but
this is still a spectacular vote of confidence for the PDAs. Wow. And
taking the two lines together... |
| The biggest challenge for PDAs - get them connected (cheaply, reliably
and simply) to Enterprise systems. They need to extend their PIM
functionality to Enterprise Information Management (EIM). Of course at
the cost of PDAs (compared to PCs Pocket or otherwise) they still make
bloody good sense - see:
http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/systems_management/technology/P
IT20000504S0052?printDoc=1 or
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/032800/pda.sml) |
