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Handheld Devices

All About Handheld Devices and Gadgets
Handheld devices have become a craze in the new millennium and it is difficult to find
anyone today without some or the other handheld gadget in his or her hands (pocket,
if you so prefer). So what exactly is a handheld device? Simply put, a handheld device
is a pocket-sized computing device with a display screen and input/output interface
like an external or touch screen keyboard. Going by this definition of handheld devices
and gadgets many appliances can qualify to be called handheld, like a mobile phone,
PDA, mobile PC, handheld game consoles and so on.

Various popular handheld devices include:
Mobile computers

 Notebook PC
 Ultra-Mobile PC
 Handheld PC
 Personal digital assistant/Enterprise digital assistant
 Graphing calculator
 Pocket computer (largely obsolete)
 Handheld game consoles
 Nintendo DS (NDS)
 Game Boy, Game Boy Colour
 Game Boy Advance
 Sega Game Gear
 PC Engine GT
 Pokémon Mini
 NeoGeo Pocket, NeoGeo Color
 Atari Lynx
 Pandora
 GP2X/GP32
 Gizmodo
 PlayStation Portable (PSP)
 N-Gage

Media recorders

 Digital still camera(DSC)
 Digital video camera (DVC or digital Camcorder)
 Digital audio recorders
 Media players/displayers
 Portable media player
 e-book reader
Communication devices