Palmtops

Palmtops are an older type of hand-held computer, the forerunners of todays cell phones and PDAs.The idea is the same, but they do have one advantage that most of over most of the hand-held devices currently on the market. They had a keyboard. Touch screen applications are nice, but the keyboard offers the most reliable way to get most of the common information into a computer. Plus, most people already know how to type. This makes the older palmtop computers offered by HP desirable, but HP has started to bring them back, realising that there was still a market out there for them. Palmtops have slightly less functionality than a laptop, but the new ones offer slightly more computing power than most PDAs or cell phones. Whether this will remain the case has yet to be seen as many PDAs are now coming with keyboard or touch-type screens.