Motorola Envoy
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The Motorola Envoy Personal Wireless Communicator was a personal digital assistant
released by Motorola in summer 1994. It was built to run General Magic's
Magic CAP
operating system
, and it combined wireless, telephone, and infrared modems in a single PDA package.
Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...
released by Motorola in summer 1994. It was built to run General Magic's
General Magic
General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications....
Magic CAP
Magic Cap
Magic Cap was an object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was in charge of the platform. Darin Adler was an architect....
operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
, and it combined wireless, telephone, and infrared modems in a single PDA package.