Editing Personal digital assistant (section)

== History ==
[[File:Psion Organiser 1.jpg|thumb|Psion Organiser I (1984)]]
The first PDA, the [[Psion Organiser|Organiser]], was released in 1984 by [[Psion (company)|Psion]], followed by [[Psion Series 3|Psion's Series 3]], in 1991. The latter began to resemble the more familiar PDA style, including a full keyboard.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Protea Story |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/page2.html |website=The Register |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-date=1 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701113216/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/page2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stevelitchfield.com/historyofpsion.htm|title=The History of Psion|access-date=9 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722160759/https://stevelitchfield.com/historyofpsion.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2011 |url-status=live |publisher=Palmtop Magazine |via=Clove Technology |first=Steve |last=Litchfield |year=1998}}</ref> The term ''PDA'' was first used on 7 January 1992 by [[Apple Inc.]] CEO [[John Sculley]] at the [[Consumer Electronics Show]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], referring to the [[Apple Newton]].<ref>[https://techland.time.com/2012/06/01/newton-reconsidered/ Newton, Reconsidered] – ''[[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]]'', 1 June 2012</ref>

[[File:Apple Newton MessagePad (1993) - Computer History Museum.jpg|thumb|[[Apple Newton]] MessagePad (1993) – [[Computer History Museum]]]]
In 1994, [[IBM]] introduced the first PDA with analog cellular phone functionality, the [[IBM Simon]], which can also be considered the first smartphone. Then in 1996, [[Nokia]] introduced a PDA with digital cellphone functionality, the [[Nokia 9000 Communicator|9000 Communicator]].

Another early entrant in this market was [[Palm, Inc.|Palm]], with a [[Palm (PDA)|line of PDA products]] which began in March 1996.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/ten-years-on-revisiting-palms-first-pilot/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250409093647/https://www.zdnet.com/article/ten-years-on-revisiting-palms-first-pilot/ |archive-date=April 9, 2025 |title=Ten years on, revisiting Palm's first Pilot |date=March 27, 2006 |publisher=[[Zdnet]] |url-status=live |first=Tom |last=Krazit}}</ref> Palm would eventually be the dominant vendor of PDAs until the rising popularity of [[Pocket PC]] devices in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/palms-market-position-erodes/|title = Palm's market position erodes |first=Margaret |last=Kane |date=January 31, 2002 |publisher=[[Cnet]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810150153/https://www.cnet.com/culture/palms-market-position-erodes/ |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By the mid-2000s most PDAs had morphed into smartphones as classic PDAs without cellular radios were increasingly becoming uncommon.<ref name="GoldenAge"/>