PDA Buyer's Guide, April 2005

In this article you'll find brief overviews of most PDAs and smartphones, presented at this time on Russian PDA market. For convenience, we divide the entire range of the following groups: the initial price level (see below), the average price level, hi-end and communicators (the phone is handheld). Meet, compare, choose. This material is updated monthly as new models of handheld computers, leaving the market obsolete and change the indicative prices. For ease of navigation through catalog images of some handhelds are equipped with special badges: Hit the month "," Super-Price "," Soon on the shelves! " and "on sale now, which we hope will help you sort out the variety of the world's handheld ...

The initial price level

It is paradoxical but true: In this section the most inexpensive and yet the most recent advances PDA-thought. The fact is that until very recently, handheld computers with these characteristics were not available to most of us because of the price dictated by the young market, and just because it did not exist. But over the past year of a miniature computer industry structure has made such a leap forward that the most distrustful left any doubt. "They know how" these devices are now smaller than desktop computers the mid 90-x (200-300 MHz processors), and cost (the most expensive model in the class) a little over $ 300. PDAs initial price level (or "low") are perfect for you if you first decided to purchase such a device. Firstly, they are - just a copy of their more expensive "brothers" - with only a little stripped-down processing power and functionality. Second, available to almost everyone. With their help, you will have the opportunity to meet with one or another handheld operating system, choose the most suitable, as well as a skill with a small computer. In addition, this handheld is always appropriate to give a friend or girlfriend, if he or she is certainly not zapravskie PDA users. Although, sure, and the last will be glad surprise: after all, a PDA is good, but two - better.