Handheld

Young people living in Kibera in their community, with simple handheld devices, GPS handheld devices and SMS enabled mobile phones, have literally put themselves on the map.

By the 18th century, the term came to be used often to refer to handheld firearms.

The HP 35, introduced on February 1, 1972, was Hewlett Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first handheld scientific calculator.

Electronic books are beamed directly to handheld devices, without the need for bookshops, travel, and the pulp and paper of physical books.

A scientific calculator is a type of electronic calculator, usually but not always handheld, designed to calculate problems in science, engineering, and mathematics.

The phones have a low power transceiver that transmits voice and data to the nearest cell sites, normally not more than 8 to 13 km (approximately 5 to 8 miles) away.

Pocket PC A pocket PC is a hardware specification for a handheld sized computer (personal digital assistant, PDA) that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.

Usage on satellite phone networks The BGAN, Iridium and Thuraya satellite phone networks all use IMEI numbers on their transceiver units as well as SIM cards in much the same way as GSM phones do.

Late last year, India s government unveiled a handheld computer that will cost only 2,250 rupees (about 40). Aakash has a resistive seven inch touch screen, like Apple s iPad.

the use of browser based Internet services, from a handheld mobile device, such as a smartphone or a feature phone, connected to a mobile network or other wireless network.

And the way I look at it is If you don't have knives and forks in your school, you're purely endorsing, from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld.

Texas Instruments (TI), after the introduction of several units with scientific notation, came out with a handheld scientific calculator on January 15, 1974 in the form of the SR 50.

Most of what you see there is an asthma inhaler, but the top is a very small GPS transceiver, which gives you the date and location of an asthma incident, giving you a new awareness of your vulnerability in relation to time and environmental factors.

Prior to its announcement by Sony Computer Entertainment, several sites such as Kotaku, VG247, MCV and IGN, as well as the senior vice president of major video game publisher Electronic Arts and Nikkei, had confirmed that the handheld existed.

Of the provision made for general operating expenses, 208,800 relates to communications, which covers the usage of handheld devices and cellphones ( 75,000), and spare parts for and repair and maintenance of the Fund's telephone network at One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza ( 132,800).

But what I want to get to, the next frontier, very quickly, and why the stethoscope is on its way out, is because we can transcend listening to the valve sounds, and the breath sounds, because now, introduced by G.E. is a handheld ultra sound.

Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates beatjazz his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the entire body. At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, after locking in his beats and loops, he plays a 3 minute song that shares his vision for the future of music.