handheld computer
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These days the corporation doesn’t like to draw attention to that interregnum period, but anyone who believes it was a complete wasteland will be surprised by the numerous successes discussed here, including the PowerBook, which defined the design of modern laptops, and the Newton MessagePad, a handheld computer that was the butt of jokes at the time but now can be seen as a decade-too-early forerunner of the iPhone.
Dr. Ramaswami tapped notes into his handheld computer.
From Literature
In the Optica Publishing Group journal Optics Letters, the researchers describe their new system, which consists of a watch with an imaging interface, a handheld computer and a backpack housing the laser and power supply.
From Science Daily
The two companies have a long history - Apple was one of the initial companies that partnered to found the firm in 1990, before the release of its "Newton" handheld computer in 1993, which used an Arm-based processor chip.
From Reuters
“What the Game Boy does is it provides everyone a small, cheap, handheld computer game device … and Tetris becomes the cultural phenomenon that we know, because it’s packaged with this platform.”
From Los Angeles Times
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