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Five Gadget Which Were Killed by The Cellphone

 
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:53 am    Post subject: Five Gadget Which Were Killed by The Cellphone Reply with quote

Five Gadget Which Were Killed by The Cellphone


The PDA

Remember the PDA? Right back to the Psion Organizer in 1984 (above), the PDA has essentially been an electronic calendar, address book and notepad. And right back to the Psion, with its squishy, non-QWERTY keyboard, they've been harder to use than their paper equivalents.

Still, despite this, it took the cellphone to finally kill them off. The fatal shortcoming? The address book. Who on earth would take out their PDA, call up a contact and then tap the phone number into their phone? Nobody, which is why, as the calendaring functions of phones got better, the PDA was quietly retired.   (Source: Charlie Sorrel, Wired Bog Network)


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