handheld computer

Example Sentences

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“What the Game Boy does is it provides everyone a small, cheap, handheld computer game device … and Tetris becomes the cultural phenomenon that we know, because it’s packaged with this platform.”

From Los Angeles Times

Noodling around on your little handheld computer has become acceptable to a degree that would have been unfathomable to generations prior, when whiling away hours at a screen was still associated with sweaty nerdiness.

From The New Yorker

A cellphone, or rather a handheld computer, may link us virtually to the great big world, but it conveys to everyone that you’re not open for business.

From Washington Post

UPS is using a remote-access lock made by New York-based Latch, in which a code is sent to a pre-credentialed UPS driver’s handheld computer, allowing entry into a high-rise building.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than engage in the type of extreme automation that many fear will lead to the destruction of jobs, the company has relied on a new kind of work — the “pickers” and “packers,” as they’re called, at vast warehouses who hunt down goods at warp speed, guided by a handheld computer, and box them for delivery.

From Washington Post