Palm is the trade name for a popular personal digital assistant (PDA),
a form of handheld device that is also known as a palmtop computer. The Palm is about the same size
as a stenographer's tablet. Data appears on
a liquid crystal display (LCD)
screen. One of the outstanding features of the Palm is its basic method of data entry: a writing
device, called a stylus, can be pointed at
icons on the display to select items for entry. The stylus can also be used to enter alphanumeric
data (words and numbers) by manually scrawling them across the face of the display. This is known
as Graffiti.
More recently, a Palm can be purchased with a built-in mini-keyboard or optionally a collapsible
full-size keyboard
can be attached.
The Palm can not only be used to originate, store, and process data on its own, but
it can download data from a desktop or notebook
computer or from the Internet, process it, and then upload the new data back.
Contributor(s): Doug Merrill and Victoria Xavier-Freyr
This was last updated in May 2007
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