PDA

PDA: "personal digital assistant". Also called palmtop computers.

Will there be an open hardware PDA? Or will Open Mobile Gadgets jump right to a cellphone-plus-PDA functionality, completely skipping the PDA-alone stage?

... I suppose that the open-hardware Music Player and the tiny pocket-size motherboards that run Linux could all be considered a kind of "palmtop computer", even though most of them don't yet have all the functionality of a typical "PDA", much less cellphone-plus-PDA ...

further reading

• Hipster PDA -- a pocket-sized device that, in some ways, is faster and better than any electronic PDA.
• Wikipedia: Personal digital assistant (PDA)