Palm m500 series...The Palm m500 series The Palm m500 series of handheld personal digital assistants consisted of three devices: the Palm m500, Palm m505, and Palm m515. The series was a follow-up to the popular Palm V series with a similar, though slightly shorter, footprint and form factor. is the next generation of premium handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. from Palm, based on the award winning design of the Palm V series. Both the m500 include the same sleek styling and new expansion features. While the Palm m500 handheld uses a high-contrast monochrome display with a new, more readable background, the Palm m505's new 16-bit color display provides support for more than 65,000 colors for a richer color experience. The Palm m500 and m500 include all the classic personal information management tools you expect, plus software that lets users and edit e-mail, Word and Excel files, browse web content offline, read e-books and view video clips and images. In addition, the included Palm Mobile Connectivity software lets you send and receive e-mail and short messages (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ), of browse the web with a modem or data-enabled mobile phone. The Palm m500 series comes with 8MB of memory, more than enough capacity to store thousands of address, years of appointments, hundreds of to do items, notes, memos and e-mails, with space available for 50 or more additional applications. Palm's postage-stamp-size expansion slot A receptacle inside a computer or other electronic system that accepts a printed circuit board. The number of slots determines future expansion. See PC data buses. (hardware) expansion slot - A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. offers plug-and-play use of the industry's smallest expansion formats: SD and MultiMediaCard. The expansion cards, which range from 8BM to 256MB, can be easily carried and inserted in the expansion slot for instant access to applications, content, data storage and backup, images, video clips and more. Because of the broad acceptance of SD and the MuliMediaCard, the cards can be shared among a variety of consumer electronics products as well, such as printers, digital cameras and MP3 players. The expansion card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. will also accept Secure Digital input/output (SDIO See SDIO card. ) devices in addition to memory cards. |
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