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Encyclopedia > Handheld computer

Handheld devices (also known as handhelds) are pocket-sized computing devices that are rapidly gaining popularity as the access to information in every walk of life becomes more and more mission critical. Along with mobile computing devices such as laptops and smartphones, PDAs represent the new frontier of computing as desktop computers find less and less favour among every day users.


The following are typical handhelds:


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Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom (2805 words)
Different visions about the ways handheld computers should be used in K-12 classrooms abound in educational technology circles, and it is vital for parents, educators, and students to understand the defining characteristics, assumptions, and goals of these perspectives.
Handheld software originally developed with National Science Foundation grant funding at the University of Michigan’s Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (HI-CE) is being utilized in classrooms across the United States with this final vision in mind.
Handheld computing devices already figure prominently in the lives of his children, and seem destined to play an important role in their formal educational careers also.
Handheld Computer Applications (457 words)
Audit programs usually reside on desktop or laptop computers, requiring auditors to type in their findings at the end of the day on site and at the end of the audit.
Each auditor's handheld computer is then linked to the desktop and audit areas, questions and regulatory references are downloaded to the handheld computer.
This next step will connect handheld computers to HSE programs using only a browser and a phone line, eliminating the need for a desktop computer.
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