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Palms and Palm Pilots
What are Palms and Palm Pilots? Palms are an operating system for PDAs created by 3COM. Can also mean PDA hardware created by Palm Inc.
When most people are thinking about handheld computers the first thing to come to mind is Palm pilot. The reason for this is simple, Palm has the lions share of the Personal Digital Assistant market with roughly 80 percent of the PDA's using the Palm Operating system.
Palm Pilot offers a full range of PDA models to satisfy any budget or system requirements. Palms cover all your basic organizational tasks with tools such as a calendar, contact list, notes, to do list and calculators. Depending on your needs and the palm model you get, other applications which may include word processor, spreadsheet, database and others.
The large market share of the PDA market held by Palm also means that there is large number of third party software developers offering Palm Pilot downloads of applications for the Palm OS. This translates into more selection for you the user. You can find just about anything you want from games to business applications for palms and palmpilots.
The stylus is used to select your applications and enter data. Palm data entry is done in an area on the screen reserved for this, using Graffiti which is a kind of modified alphabet. Once you have mastered Graffiti you should be able to enter data quite quickly or you can select characters from the screen using the stylus.
More than a few lines of data entry? Check out the new PDA keyboards for Palm OS and Pocket PC.
We have selected our top picks for Palm Pilot PDA's, software and Palm accessories for your convenience. You will find a full range of products including Palms, cases, stylus, software and other PDA accessories to enhance your handheld digital experience.
There is a very broad range of pricing and features available in the Palm OS models offered by Palm, Sony, Handspring and others, even IBM has a PDA on the market.
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Best Palm Pilot Merchants
Abt Electronics - Great value in Palm powered PDA's from Palm and Sony.
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