Pocket-sized computer
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Pocket-sized computer describes the post-programmable calculator / pre-smartphone pocket-sized portable-office[1][2] hardware devices that included the earlier DOS-based palmtops and subsequent Windows-CE handhelds, as well as a few other terms, primarily covering the 1980s[3] through 2007.
Sometimes called Pocket-sized computing devices, they were a series of internally different devices, and included Handheld ("Pocket-sized handheld computing device"),[4][5][6] and the earlier-introduced Palmtop ("Pocket-sized palmtop computing device")[7][8] and "pocket-sized palmtop computer."[9][10] The New York Times used the term "palmtop/handheld."[11]
The media called "the first computer that fits in your palm and weighs less than a pound" and its early day competitors a palmtop.[12] Although the word "handheld" was used before Microsoft's 1996 introduction of Windows CE,[13] a lawsuit by Palm, Inc pushed Microsoft's use of the new term Handheld PC.[14]