Project PDA

Name that refers to a type of PDA dimensions similar to those of a Palm, without the keyboard and built-in color screen with a 240 x 320 pixels. It works with the handheld version of the Windows operating system, called the Microsoft Windows Pocket PC. More powerful than the PDA based on Palm OS devices that let the pocket PC. Although there is a huge inconsistency when it comes to refer to each type of PDA, we can accept as valid and fairly widespread this definition of Pocket PC. With the same term might call for some PDA-like features but using other operating systems such as Linux. Also Known As: WinCE, Windows Mobile

Windows® -powered Pocket PCs, the next-generation PDAs from Microsoft and industry partners offer customers the best way to connect to their most essential information while away from their desk yet are versatile enough to satisfy the personal needs of those living today's busy mobile lifestyle. Pocket PCs already include a broad range of native business, personal productivity and entertainment applications yet can easily be expanded to adapt to each customer's changing needs through a continually growing number of industry-standard hardware and software expansion options. Pocket PCs come with the following software:

• Pocket Outlook. Pocket PCs include a personal information manager (PIM) with calendar, contacts, inbox, tasks and notes and are an ideal companion to the Microsoft® Outlook® messaging and collaboration client. Outlook 2000 ships in the box of every Pocket PC sold.
• Pocket Internet Explorer. Pocket Internet Explorer provides the most full-functioning Web browser software available for handheld devices of this type to date.
• Pocket Word and Excel. Pocket versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel provide the most functional and flexible office companion ever delivered on a PDA. Integration between e-mail and attachments enables customers to send and receive messages, manage their e-mail with access to server folders, view and modify attachments, and launch Web pages through embedded URLs.
• Windows Media Player. The Windows Media TM Player is the first portable media player that plays both Windows Media Format and MP3.
• Microsoft Reader. With Microsoft ClearType TM display technology, Microsoft Reader delivers an on-screen computer reading experience that for the first time approaches the convenience and quality of reading text printed on paper.
• Microsoft Money for Pocket PC. Microsoft Money for the Pocket PC acts as a standalone application and synchronizes with the desktop version of Money 2000 to help users keep on top of their finances while on the go.
• Pocket Streets. Pocket Streets lets you take maps with you and includes pushpins for marking favorite locations for easy access.