History Main / DataPad

* ''[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]]'': Every single stalker in the Zone has a PDA. In all games, the most prominent use of the player's PDA is to check the satellite map of the Zone (maps of certain underground locations can appear in the quest log) and track quest objectives.

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* In ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', Dave and Frank use devices called "IBM Tele Pads" to watch themselves being interviewed by Creator/TheBBC. They only seem to operate in portrait mode and have ten channel buttons along the bottom of the screen.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' has "hand computers".

* The Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) was a pocket-sized tablet that gradually disappeared from the market around the same time smartphones started becoming more common. [=PDAs=] were essentially smartphones without the phone, or small tablets. The [=iPod=] Touch is a modern descendant of these.
* Phablets (phone + tablet): larger than a smartphone, smaller than a tablet. Depending on your perspective, they either give you [[MasterOfAll the best of both worlds]]... [[MasterOfNone or not]].

* [[TruthInTelevision Tablet computers]]. [[OlderThanTheyThink While they've been around for decades]], and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Ruiz_Robles Spanish teacher]] even patented a mechanical version in 1949, it's only been since the introduction of the [=PalmPilot=] in 1994 that the device became practical and reliable enough to be viable; the Apple iPad was probably the first tablet computer to really look like a true Data Pad, being slim and with a touchscreen when previous models were on the clunky side and usually required a stylus to interface with the screen.

* Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), which were pocket-sized tablets that gradually disappeared from the market around the same time smartphones started becoming more common. Essentially smartphones without the phone, or small tablets. The iPod Touch is a modern descendant of these.
* Phablets (phone + tablet): larger than a smartphone, smaller than a tablet. They either give you the best of both worlds... [[MasterOfNone or not]] depending on your perspective.

* Phablets, (phone + tablet), larger than a smartphone, smaller than a tablet, and allegedly have the functions of both.

* [[TruthInTelevision Tablet computers]]. [[OlderThanTheyThink While they've been around for decades]], and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Ruiz_Robles Spanish teacher]] even patented a mechanical version in 1949, it's only been since the introduction of the [=PalmPilot=] in 1994 that the device became practical and reliable enough to be viable.
** The Apple iPad was probably the first tablet computer to really look like a true Data Pad. Previous tablets looked a lot clunkier, and were often operated by stylus.

** In ''Call of Pripyat'' they play a more prominent role, being physical items like in ''Clear Sky'' but also being sell-able to Owl for a bit of money and an achievement. Degtyarev's PDA can also track anomaly fields and, if the proper detectors are installed in a quest for the Ecologists, what artifacts have spawned in them.

The kimoyo card from ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' comics.

* Jake Quinlan's W.A.C. (Wireless Access Console) in ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}''
* The video tablets left behind by the science team in ''VideoGame/SchizmMysteriousJourney''

* In 2090 AD during ''VideoGame/DarkFall: Lights Out'', The crew of the D.E.O.S. research station use these, and they apparently have a lot, using some as [[MundaneUtility digital picture frames]], others as personal journals, and one crew member even goes to the trouble of erasing some of the cookbook data in one, to write in it while cooking for a party.