Once all this happens, our definitions of phones, computers and handhelds are going to change.
The 3DS is lighting up the sales charts, as are new Pokemon titles for its handhelds.
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Another new brand, called Tungsten, will aim at the mobile executive with feature-packed wireless handhelds.
They also moved 143, 000 3DS handhelds in June, up 47% from an estimated 97, 000 in May.
Linux now runs on millions of devices from handhelds to mainframes, and has attracted wide industry support.
All of the companies making phones or handhelds recognise that the future involves changing their gadgets in one way or another.
After that it will probably be several months before any manufacturers announce their own handhelds based on the technology.
It will also be ruggedized, meaning it will resist rough treatment on the job that might break other handhelds.
In return, software employees are barred from seeing prototype handhelds lest they leak details to Sony, Handspring and others.
New handhelds will have chips from Texas Instruments that allow users to view video clips and edit graphics-heavy presentations.
Nearly free, call-and-install, 1.5-megabit-per-second bandwidth to home offices and handhelds would be radical.
Even Microsoft Windows Phone 7 handhelds will soon have more apps than Blackberry.
Handhelds from the 3DS to the PSP have seen slower burns for their sales, rather than impressive launch performance.
But it did not go over so well with parents, who are used to buying inexpensive handhelds for their kids.
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As Palm was selling 18 million branded handhelds in its first five years, a cadre of imitators quickly leaped in.
Bluetooth GPS receivers turn handhelds into car navigation systems and factory-installed hands-free systems continue to slowly march their way into vehicles.
Cell phone users who are convinced the government is tracking their handhelds as a homing beacon can breathe a tad easier.
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We heard a rumor last week that Sony was working on new handhelds to compete with devices like the iPad.
Handhelds running its PocketPC software, such as HP's iPaq and the new T-Mobile smart phone, now claim 21% of the market.
It's time to look and learn from these restless DS owners who've promoted their trusty handhelds to robots on a mission.
Yeah, truckers checking their handhelds while driving sounds like a great idea.
Public Safety, a software developer in Winter Park, Florida, sells handhelds to police and airport security teams to perform instant background checks.
Still, the technology could make wideband a realistic option for handhelds and put the mere 1.3Gbps of 802.11ac WiFi to shame.
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The blitz on handhelds will be under way in earnest in 2012.
The result will be faster performance and longer battery life in handhelds.
"Java is a great programming language, but there is not a big intersection between handhelds and Java, " said Jeff Hawkins, founder of HandSpring.
Chances are good that future handhelds from Palm will look more like the Treo and less like the unconnected organizers of the past.
Opera is hoping to make further inroads in the market with its Mini product, which can be used on handhelds and mobile phones.
Second, as we noted above, Palm users sometimes have a bad habit of leaving their handhelds in places where they're out of reach.
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