CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: Flash Memory, Productivity Software

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Feature touch-sensitive screens, integrated keyboards, or folding keyboards, allowing you to enter data directly. Most pdas contain internal hard drives modern pdas only use ram for running applications user data is stored in flash rom. Data can be transferred from pda to desktop by using a cradle of a sync cable. The process of updating your data so the files on your pda are the same as the files on your computer is called synchronizing. Small portable devices enabling playing of mp3 files anywhere. Digital files can hold video, audio, or images. Many companies are now manufacturing pmps that handle video and still images as well as music files. Using peer-to-peer services, people share files directly in some jurisdictions this is illegal. Smartphones are a result of the convergence (or combination of features) of various portable devices such as pmps, pdas, and cellular phones.