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Article: Junior achievers.(smart phones)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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All-in-one gizmos used to exist only in the special realm of late-night television ads for kitchen tools. But with the pro-liferation of must-have electronic devices--cellphones, pagers, hand-held computers--technology consumers have hankered for the day when they too could slice and dice with a single gadget.
Enter the "smart phone," a hybrid of mobile phone and hand-held computer. Besides reducing clutter, the idea is to supercharge the phone by endowing it with the Web-surfing capacity of a computer and the memory for phone numbers and schedules found in a personal digital assistant, or PDA. But it's a stretch to do everything well--which goes for two of the ...