The first thing you notice about the Compaq iPaq palmtop is just how thin it is. At 130 by 15.9 by 83.5mm, its the thinnest colour CE-based device to date. Weighing 170g it's also moderately lightweight, ...

Handspring has finally released the long awaited colour version of the popular Visor range; the Prism. The Visor has quickly become a popular PalmOS handheld, but if you wanted colour, the only option up to now ...

This is a machine which sorts the fun-seekers from the business types. If you want fun, expect to pay lots of money and walk away with bulky and heavy palmtops. If you're serious about your PDA ...

Such is the demand for colour screens that Palm Computing came up with the Palm IIIc. This machine caused quite a stir when it first appeared, but it's really just a standard Palm device after all. ...

Our second PocketPC-based device comes across as very different from Casio's Cassiopeia E-115. The Jornada 545 is slimmer, designed with a more curvy look, and includes a hinged plastic flip-up cover to protect the screen. A ...

Costing relatively little, the Visor Deluxe is a stylish but rugged PDA which runs the Palm OS 3.1 operating system under licence. If you have ever used a Palm product, you'll know how to use the ...

Based on the PocketPC operating system, the Cassiopeia E-115 is a chunky piece of button-laden electronics that begs to be picked up and played with. It has a 16-bit colour screen which, at 240x340 pixels, is ...

As far as pocket-sized computing goes, for something a step up from a cheap databank your choice has always been limited to 3Com's ubiquitous Palm Pilot family and the keyboard-less Palm-style Windows CE imitators. Now Psion ...

If you just want to check your e-mails from a remote location, and don't particularly like carrying all the associated paraphernalia - notebook, modem, cables, international phone socket adapters, and so on - around with you, ...

Psion recently launched an updated version of its Series 5 palmtop computer, but although Psion's Epoc operating system is not as widespread as Windows CE, it is licensed to one or two other manufacturers. Oregon Scientific ...

Clap eyes on the new HP Jornada 420 and your first reaction is likely to be "Cute, I want one of those". Hardly surprising, as it's the first palm sized computer to offer a colour screen, ...

The problem with mobile computing devices is that their designers always have to make some sort of compromise. Laptop PCs offer plenty of functionality but suffer from short battery lives and are invariably quite bulky items. ...

Psion's Series 3 range of palmtops has proved immensely popular over the last six years or so, first with the 3 and then with the enduringly reliable (apart from the occasional hinge or battery lead failure ...