Comment: Handhelds have key weakness

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It is easy to put your finger on why laptops will always have the edge over handheld computers when it comes to performing serious business tasks, says Daniel Robinson

Someone recently asked me why it is that I write about PDAs all the time in IT Week, and yet don't actually own one myself. I told them that as a journalist, any device without a keyboard wasn't mu...

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