Four years ago, a low-cost handheld dubbed the Simputer was touted as a way to give villagers in poorer countries access to computing power. That dream remains elusive. Very few Indian villagers have ...

The DragonBox Pyra is a handheld computer with a 5 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard and a built-in gamepad. It’s designed to run free and open source software, and it’s been under development for more ...

Pervasive clinical computing -- the anytime, anywhere access to clinical computing power and data -- is viewed by many as the holy grail of clinical automation and time savings for clinicians. However ...

Over the last decade the average laptop computer has gotten a lot thinner and lighter. But a handful of Chinese companies have been taking a different approach to portable computers by releasing a ...

As handheld computing has solidified alongside everything else into the mobile phone, it’s sad that the once promising idea of a general purpose machine in the palm of the hand has taken a turn into ...

Mecha Comet is a 6.1″ x 2.9″ x 0.55″ handheld Linux computer "that's truly yours to own, build and mod," with a 6-core ARM CPU, 3.92-inch AMOLED display, 8 megapixel camera and a modular attachment ...

FREMONT, Calif., April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (SCKT), a leading provider of data capture solutions, today announced its entry into the $27 billion mobile handheld computing market ...

Intel Panther Lake against AMD Z2 Extreme at 17W and 25W posts up to 40% more FPS at 25W, helping you pick a handheld.

It wasn’t so long ago that a few brave pioneers experimented with running Linux on servers in actual production environments. Up until then, Linux was more for the “recreational user,” the guy who ...

Abilene Christian University’s two-year experiment distributing iPhones and iPod Touches to all incoming students is getting a lot of press right now. This is a topic close to my heart, as I’ve been ...