Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Pushing the barrier with PDAs
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020809S0008
Change in the computer world is par for the course. Always faster, more memory, etc. That is also true of the PDA world. Four years ago we were using a variety of MIPS/SHx processors running in the 60-80MHz range and tickeled to death with 16MB devices. (Ok, Palm-sized PC users anyway - all three of us.
) Two years ago we had 206MHz iPAQs with bright color screens and 32MB of RAM on backorder. Now we have 400MHz machines with 64MB of RAM and integrated bluetooth and/or WiFi.
Well, Foo Fighter ran across this article at InformationWeek that goes over all of the changes that have happened and will be happening in the near future and what you should expect from the PDA platform in general. It is an interesting read, especially if you are considering a larger scale rollout in your organization.
Change in the computer world is par for the course. Always faster, more memory, etc. That is also true of the PDA world. Four years ago we were using a variety of MIPS/SHx processors running in the 60-80MHz range and tickeled to death with 16MB devices. (Ok, Palm-sized PC users anyway - all three of us.
) Two years ago we had 206MHz iPAQs with bright color screens and 32MB of RAM on backorder. Now we have 400MHz machines with 64MB of RAM and integrated bluetooth and/or WiFi.Well, Foo Fighter ran across this article at InformationWeek that goes over all of the changes that have happened and will be happening in the near future and what you should expect from the PDA platform in general. It is an interesting read, especially if you are considering a larger scale rollout in your organization.
