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Mobile Computing - Laptop, Smartphone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)?

Author: TechShortcut Staff | Article updated: March 11, 2009

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	1. Laptop	2. Smartphone	3. Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
General Advice	Use when you need full computer application functionality. This is the most robust choice.	Use when you need Internet connectivity and less-than full computer functionality is acceptable.	Use when Internet connectivity coverage is not the biggest priority.
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Find More Information Use Research Helper to find related web articles	Laptop Notebook Netbook Cellular Wireless Access	Smartphone	Personal Digital Assistant PDA
Examples of Products and Services These are not endorsements, simply some product or service names we encountered in our research to get you started finding your best fit.	Any laptop, notebook or netbook computer.	Cell phones with Web Browsers Apple iPhone Samsung Instinct RIM Blackberry Cell phones with PDA-like Operating Systems HTC Touch Pro	PDAs with WiFi HP iPaq Apple iPod touch

Tip 1 - Phone Browser Simulators
It is best to physically test a phone to see how web pages will display but there are websites and software applications that simulate web browsing on various phones. Simulators can give you a general idea how web browsing looks. Try doing a search on "phone simulator" and the type of phone you want to check.

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