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Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functioned as a personal information manager. Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDAs were mostly displaced in the early 2010s by the widespread adoption of smartphones and tablet computers. In particular, smartphones based on iOS and Android took their place, causing a rapid…

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Personal digital assistant

Nodes139
Edges138
Triples3
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014388
Components1

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pdas pda also touchscreen used palm keyboard navigation devices data software information operating via system early wireless bluetooth could mobile

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the Palm Treoinstance ofDevices0.80text
infrared or Bluetooth to connect to the PDAinstance ofor using wireless technology0.80text
Microsoft Outlook or ACTinstance ofusing software0.80text

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