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The term '''personal communicator''' has been used with several meanings. Around 1990 the next generation digital mobile phones were called digital personal communicators. Another definition, coined in 1991, is for a category of handheld devices that provide [[Software:Personal information manager|personal information manager]] functions and packet switched [[Engineering:Wireless network|wireless]] data communications capabilities over wireless wide area networks such as [[Engineering:Cellular network|cellular network]]s.  These devices are now commonly referred to as [[Engineering:Smartphone|smartphone]]s.  
==See also==
*[[Engineering:EO Personal Communicator|AT&T EO Personal Communicator, 1993]]
*[[Engineering:IBM Simon|IBM Simon Personal Communicator, 1994]]
*[[Engineering:Nokia Communicator|Nokia Communicator]]
*[[Social:Personal digital assistant|Wireless PDA]]
*[[Engineering:Smartphone|Smartphone]]

==External links==
*[http://www.fraser-popovski.com/Mobitex.pdf Concept genesis, Aug 1991]
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D9143AF93AA25754C0A964958260 The Executive Computer; 'Mother of All Markets' or a 'Pipe Dream Driven by Greed'? NYT, July 1992]
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DA133EF931A35753C1A964958260 EO Inc. Describes 'Personal Communicator' Devices, New York Times,1992]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160314063215/http://looksmartphones.com/p/articles/mi_m3457/is_n39_v11/ai_14215279 Motorola expands family of personal communicator products, Mobile Phone News,1993]
*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3457/is_n43_v11/ai_14297997#continue Bellsouth, IBM unveil personal communicator phone, Mobile Phone News,1993]
*[http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1993/sept93/93n0918.asp&articleid=5960&guid= The EO 440 And EO 880 Paradigms For Personal Communicators, Mobile Computing,1993] 
*[http://memex.org/thereturnofthepda.html The Return of the PDA, Marketing Computers,1995] 

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