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Veterinary students in the UK are involved in a pilot study to use WM devices to take notes, record training records and track cases. The pilot sponsored by Orange uses the M3100SPV (Universal) and M500 (Imate-Jam), and some custom software developed for them called myPad

While tablet PCs were considered, the team chose to use smartphones because they were small enough to fit in a pocket but have screens large enough to display diagnostic images. "You can’t have a huge, scary thing sticking out of your pocket when you’re dealing with animals," said final-year student Adam Mugford.

Project member Kim Whittlestone said the students were told to view the devices more as portable computers than phones. "They’re really more hand-held computers," he said

Source: ITPro

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