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    MessagePad 130: Description
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    This article contains the Apple MessagePad 130 product description.


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    Description
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    The MessagePad 130 personal digital assistant (PDA) makes your information as mobile as you are.

    It makes your information easy to communicate and easy to view. The MessagePad 130 runs the award-winning Newton 2.0 operating system, and features user-controllable back-lighting for on-demand use and a nonglare screen that works in any lighting condition.

    With its additional system memory, the MessagePad 130 offers improved performance with communications solutions such as Internet Protocol (IP) applications and wireless LANs, as well as improved multitasking support.

    It has a built-in notepad, to-do list, datebook, telephone log, and address file for organizing personal and business affairs, as well as Pocket Quicken (U.S. only) to help organize personal and business expenses.

    You can enter information in many ways: as digital ink, printed text, hand-drawn graphics, or with an on-screen keyboard. Improved recognition soft-ware quickly transforms your hand-writing into typed text. There's even an optional external keyboard.

    Pen-based navigation and data entry make finding information easy and fast.

    The MessagePad 130 can receive wireless messages and alphanumeric pages, and can send and receive faxes and electronic mail.

    It also lets you exchange information with either Mac OS* or Windows*based computers using the included Newton Backup Utility, or optional Newton Connection Utilities and Newton Press software.

    Your MessagePad 130 can also be customized with software applications that put critical information at your fingertips, no matter where you are.


    Features
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    Built-in organization functions
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    - Helps you plan monthly, weekly, and daily activities using the calendar, and manage priorities using the To Do List

    - Allows free-form notes, outlines, lists, and phone logs

    - Includes customizable name and address files for colleagues and friends, using various business-card formats

    - Offers an assortment of information and productivity tools such as time-zone maps, a calculator, and currency exchange

    - Includes Pocket Quicken (U.S. only), which puts current information about your cash, checking, savings, and credit-card accounts at your fingertips

    Built-in communications
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    - Actively assists you in making phone calls, faxing, printing, finding information, and sending and receiving electronic mail

    - Uses an optional wired or wireless modem to send and receive faxes and electronic mail

    - Prints formatted letters and notes using Apple printers or serial or parallel printers with the optional Print Pack

    - Lets you beam notes, messages, packages, schedules, and business cards via built-in infrared communications

    - Backs up all data onto your personal computer and installs software on your MessagePad 130 using the included Newton Backup Utility

    Expandable functions
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    - Using the optional Newton Connection Utilities, lets you import and export infor-mation from your Mac OS* or Windows*based computer, and backs up and synchronizes files with your computer

    - Works with PC cards and serial peripherals such as keyboards, modems, pagers, and wireless communications and storage products

    - Offers a large selection of productivity, finance, time and billing, information man-agement, reference, electronic document publishing, and entertainment software


    Ordering Information
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    MessagePad 130 2.5MB
    Order No. H0188LL/A
    - MessagePad 130 personal digital assistant with Newton 2.0 operating system
    - Telescoping Pen
    - Batteries
    - Newton Backup Utility software for Mac OS* and Windows*based computers
    - Serial cables for Mac OS* and Windows*based computers
    - Pocket Quicken software (U.S. only)
    - Complete setup, learning, and reference documentation
    - Limited warranty

    Accessories
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    - The MessagePad 130 with Newton 2.0 operating system is compatible with most accessories available for the MessagePad 110 and MessagePad 120 with Newton 1.x or 2.0 operating system. Please see the MessagePad Accessories data sheet for detailed information.

    Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your Apple reseller for the most current information about product specifications and configurations.

Document Information
Product Area: Newton
Category: Apple MessagePad
Sub Category: Apple MessagePad 130

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