•Palmtops are also called PDAs, hand-held computers and pocket computers.



•Palmtop or hand-held personal computer, lightweight, small, battery-powered, general-purpose programmable computer. It typically has a miniaturized full-function, typewriter like keyboard for input and a small, full color, liquid-crystal display for output. In addition to an operating system that is compatible with that of a desktop computer, a palmtop will typically contain a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and a calendar and phone book. A variety of other programs can be loaded and executed, and data can usually be transferred to and from a desktop computer. Although some palmtops are like personal digital assistants in that they accept handwritten or touch screen input, they generally differ in that the palmtop has more memory, a keyboard, and a greater variety of available programs.

•Because of their small size, most palmtop computers do not include disk drives. However, many contain PCMCIA slots in which you can insert disk drives, modems, memory, and other devices.

•Palmtops that use a pen rather than a keyboard for input are often called hand-held computers or PDAs.

•A Rochester software-development company has formed an alliance with a California supplier of wireless hardware to introduce to the market for the first time a wireless LAN connection between mobile handheld devices (otherwise known as palmtops) and critical information located in enterprise systems. This enables palmtops to function as laptops and full-size personal computers, allowing the user to enter and retrieve electronically stored information in any legacy mainframe.

Use of Palmtop

Security forces uses palmtops in possession of terrorists in the state

Earlier Militants used to jot down their plans on plain sheets and papers, but these days they seem to have switched to high-tech gadgets but now they use palmtops to make details of their operations, locations and code names of their compatriots to guides that led them from the Line of Control to the hinterland. They said 'A lot of data is stored in these palmtops".

Built-in Database program

According to survey of German students -- One of the most important features on my Palmtop is the built-in Database program. I use the Database to keep track of my projects as well as my day-to-day homework (see above screen). I can quickly look up the details of a project when I need them instead of having to try to shuffle through my folders to find where I wrote all this information down. With the Palmtop I've never lost the information for an assignment I was working on.