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Today, to a certain extent, PDAs (Personal digital assistants) have managed
to replace laptops, especially for frequent travelers.
Everything from e-mail to chat is available on the go on your PDA. Apart from
that, you can also get a ton of software and applications to further enhance
your portable experience. But a lot of people avoided surfing the web on mobile
devices since non optimized websites are painfully slow to load. Now, all these
websites (listed below) will automatically recognize whether you're visiting
from a mobile browser and streamline the content being transmitted to a level
that it can be easily presented on the PDA. This involves formatting the page
for a smaller size so that you don't need to scroll left and right to see the
page, reduction in number of images or lower resolution images and removal of
heavy files and links.
These PDA-optimized websites can be classified into different categories on
the basis of the type of content they provide.
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| So there are many things that
you can do with your PDA, and now with a growing list of PDA-optimized
services, you can kiss your bulky laptops goodbye. |
1 Search engines
These are optimized to search for PDA-related content available on the
websites that can be browsed easily on the go. Many big search engines like
Google.com and AOL.com search already have their mobile counterparts but
several other search engines like Ask.com mobile search, Picapage.com,
4info.com, and Yahoo.com have got their PDA-optimized search engines up. |
2 Business
Websites like Businessweek.com, money.CNN.com, and Forbes.com have been
the pioneers in business information, but now they have further streamlined
their websites to provide business-related content for PDAs also. |
3 News and news-related content
BBC.com, CNN.com, news.google.com were some of the very first ones to take a
step toward this direction and optimizing their website for PDAs, but now
many more are catching up with them and at a very good pace. |
4 Shopping
Today more and more people prefer shopping online rather than going out,
and now for added benefits, websites like Amazon.com and eBay.com mobile are
here and others are also following the trend to provide online shopping
through PDAs. |
5 Entertainment
What's better than sitting at the back of your car, and enjoying the
latest buzz. Many websites like WindowsMedia.Com, PocketMovies.Net,
PocketMediaLive.com, Radio4PDA.com and streams4PDA.com have come up with
stream media content optimized for PDAs. |
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