handheld computer

Example Sentences

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“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

Noodling around on your little handheld computer has become acceptable to a degree that would have been unfathomable to generations prior, when whiling away hours at a screen was still associated with sweaty nerdiness.

From The New Yorker

A cellphone, or rather a handheld computer, may link us virtually to the great big world, but it conveys to everyone that you’re not open for business.

From Washington Post

Welcome to a closer look inside technology, where a handheld computer can search the world for arcane questions, take photos, make phone calls, provide calendar reminders and weather forecasts, while it also allows strangers to have hard and soft data about how and where we live our lives, how much we weigh, what we buy, and what medicine we take.

From Washington Times

UPS is using a remote-access lock made by New York-based Latch, in which a code is sent to a pre-credentialed UPS driver’s handheld computer, allowing entry into a high-rise building.

From Los Angeles Times