Back in the mists of time, this reviewer once worked for a publishing house that regularly dropped laptop computers from a height of one metre onto a hard floor. Almost invariably, they broke. After a while, ...

Mitac is carving out a name for itself as a maker of Pocket PCs. The company's latest Pocket PC does something quite unique - it is the first such PDA with a built-in GPS receiver. Mitac ...

The generally accepted route to obtaining a PDA is to look through lists of the devices available from particular suppliers and make your choice. In doing this you are working with officially imported devices. However the ...

AlphaSmart's Dana Wireless is an interesting beast. It's effectively a large PDA, weighing 910g, with an almost full-sized keyboard; all the main keys are normal size, while function keys and cursor keys are a little smaller. ...

What do you want from a PDA, and what do you want from a phone? From the former, maybe a big screen, plenty of software, good on-board applications for managing your diary and contacts and maybe ...

Hewlett Packard's new Pocket PC-based iPAQ h4150 seems at first glance to have the features to make it a winner, combining small overall size with built-in Bluetooth and wi-fi. The size (70.6 x 13.5 x 113.6mm) ...

Toshiba has a long and fairly distinguished history when it comes to Pocket PC. It has also for some time produced hardware that is available in a number of wireless configurations. Both characteristics continue with the ...

If you fancy a Symbian Series 60 phone, the number of handset makers you can choose between has just doubled, with Siemens' SX1 finally becoming available to buy almost a year after it was first announced. ...

It is not easy to produce a device that functions well as both a phone and a PDA. Many have tried, but few have come as close to success as Handspring has done with the Treo ...

Sony seems to pump out Palm-based PDAs as if its factory is about to be taken away by some off-world daemon and its contents vapourised. Hardly a month goes by without a new device appearing; recently ...

Nobody can accuse Palm of dragging its heels when it comes to upgrading its PDAs, and this is especially true of the Tungsten range. The T2 was only just beginning to feel comfortable in our hands, ...

If you are on the look-out for a PDA running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, then mid-priced models that hover towards the £300 mark may seem attractive. In theory they should offer better features ...

One of the dilemmas for anyone looking to buy a PDA these days is whether to go for something that is GSM / GPRS connected. If you decide you do want the kind of device which ...

With the coming of Microsoft's latest Pocket PC software, Pocket PC 2003 (or, to give it its proper new name, Windows Mobile 2003), there has been an explosion of PDAs hitting the market. Acer has pitched ...

No sharp executive or journalist about town is complete these days without a smooth PDA to slip into his or her top pocket, and Palm has been at the forefront of the computer-in-your-hand revolution. The aim ...

The introduction of Intel's PXA250 XScale processor and Microsoft's Pocket PC 2003 has seen a wave of new or updated PDAs hitting the market. Fujitsu Siemens' Pocket LOOX 600 is one such new gadget. Built around ...

Replacing the H5400 as top dog in the iPAQ line up, the H5500 offers better performance, more memory and Pocket PC 2003, but at a price only corporate users will be able to afford. The H5500 ...

The original Palm Zire was aimed directly at the first time user, with just 2MB of memory and a monochrome screen. However, the Zire 71 is a completely different animal; fast, with an excellent colour screen ...

Cast your mind back a year or two and you may recall that there was a time when telephones were used to make telephone calls. These days we expect far, far more from a phone than ...

The latest addition to the Clié SJ stable of PDAs from Sony is the SJ33, a mid-range, Palm OS-based palmtop. It's much improved over its SJ30 sibling, with an uprated processor, integrated MP3 player and a ...