Palm-sized computer sales are booming as are its uses for discrete manufacturers who are taking advantage of new software and applications that have been devised for these small, lightweight and increasingly powerful portable computers.
These fashionable, fit-in-the-palm of your hand computers are fast becoming portable data collectors for engineers and technicians on the shop floor who need to collect large amounts of data fast and get the data into a usable, error-free format. For years, PCs and other stand-alone devices have been used to help tally measurement data on the factory floor, but today the difference is mobility.