Why weigh yourself down with three or four devices when one smart phone can do it all? More people are thinking this way, and that means manufacturers are scrambling to pack it in. Like the old grey mare, cellphones and PDAs aren't what they used to be. They've merged into interesting hybrids known as smart phones. A smart phone offers telephony, but it also has all sorts of additional goodies designed to displace other devices from its owner's pocket. It may provide Web surfing, or e-mail, or games, or an MP3 player, and of course, it really needs a Personal Information Manager, or PIM. It may be shaped like a telephone, or like a PDA, or it may be somewhere in between. Whatever they look like, they run on a cellular network.
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