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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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are best understood as devices purpose-built to be better at some task than a

general-purpose device such as a smartphone or tablet; an e-reader is a good

example. The CompTIA A+ 1001 exam objectives have a pretty long list of

devices, so let’s start with the most popular and go through them one at a

time to understand what they do.

Smartphones

One of the earliest types of mobile device was the personal digital assistant

(PDA), such as the Compaq iPaq from the late 1990s. PDAs had the basic

features of today’s mobile devices but lacked cellular connectivity, so you

couldn’t make a phone call. Many people, your author included, spent close

to ten years carrying a mobile phone and a PDA, wondering when somebody

would combine these two things. Starting around 2003–2005, companies

began marketing PDAs that included cellular telephones (although cool

features like using the PDA to access Internet data weren’t well developed).

Figure 24-1 shows an early PDA-with-a-phone, the once very popular RIM

BlackBerry.

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