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The Popularity of Handheld Computers – smartphones

The handheld PC can be a mobile phone, an organizer or calculator. It is much smaller than a standard laptop and uses its own apps, unlike the laptop that uses the same apps as the desktop computer.

In the latter part of the 80’s early 90’s, those handheld devices were referred to as Palmtop and they were compatible with the IBM personal computers. This device was called the Atari Portfolio, built in 1989. Other PC manufacturers came up with their own handheld personal computer devices, such as Hewlett Packard who came out with its HP 95LX, built in 1991 and Poqet Computer Corporation came out with its Poqet PC, which was a mini notebook. All these handheld personal computers were compatible to MS-DOS operating system.

The early 90’s handheld computers, apart from the pocket calculator, were shunned by the market, except for me, who always wanted a PDA or a Palm Pilot. But seriously though, those devices were cool, excepted that they had limited functionality, due to the lack of apps on them. They were good organizer. But lack compatibility with the desktop personal computer.

The only handheld device at that time that gained some amount of traction in the market was the Apple Newton. This was a tablet PC that was developed by the Apple Inc. in 1993 but suffered the same faith as the others, due to hardware problems. If Steve Jobs were there, he would have sorted out those issues. However, he returned to Apple three years later, in 1996, when they purchased neXT from him.

Steve Jobs returned to Silicon Valley was to mark a new resurgence in the way the world looked at handheld devices. But first, He had to resuscitate the flagging Apple’s brand. And by extension, Apple’s Inc. from the brink of collapsed to one of the most successful and cash rich companies in Silicon Valley.

Steve Jobs first creation, when he returned to Apple Inc., was the iPod, which was a portable media layer that came out in 2001. Back then, the first iPod could not be classified as a handheld computer but iPod line, such as the iTouch could be classified as a handheld computer. This was due to its multiple functionality and compatibility with other computer devices.

Smartphone

The smart phone is a mobile phone with an advance technological capabilities and connectivity than an ordinary mobile phone. These phones come with PDA and media player capabilities, along with built in camera, touch screen, web browsing functionalities and GPS navigation and mobile broadband access.

Apple Inc. was able to corner the market with its iPhone that was launched in 2007 by Steve Jobs. It is popular phone in the market, due to its extra feature, such as video camera, visual voicemail, virtual keyboard and both 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. Many other smart phones on the market are doing well, such as blackberry, with a little setback in its functionality, have done well in the past and no doubt will continue to do well the future. Google’s Android, Samsung Galaxy and Sony Ericsson are holding their own in the smart phone market.

Tablet Personal computer

The evolution of the tablet PC came into existence with Microsoft Tablet PC; in fact the term tablet PC was coined by Bill Gates led Microsoft Corp. in early 2000. The tablet is between a smart phone and a laptop computer and it can be akin to the slate, which is a complete mobile PC. The present day tablets are more high tech with touch screen and virtual keyboard features along with myriad of other functionalities.

Steve Job scored big in the tablet market, when Apple inc. launched the iPad tablet in 2010. The tablet is able to function as an audio-visual media and has multitouch screen capabilities that run on the iOS operating system. Since then, a plethora of tablets have entered the market in an attempt to steal the spot light but to no avail, Apple’s handheld devices still dominate market share.

Finally, handheld computer now has more features than a desktop computer. The desktop computer is virtually obsolete except in the corporate world, where the desktop is still needed for its capabilities in performing large volume of work.

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