The PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) is a device used by Rico which functions as the in-game options menu. It can be used to call in an extraction or heavy drop in times of need, shows statistics, and provides a detailed map.

Features in Just Cause (1)

• Map of San Esperito.

  

  • Safehouse locations.
  • Military base locations.
  • Race locations.
  • Mission locations (during a mission).
• Guerrilla relations.
• Rioja Cartel relations.
• Heavy drop.
• Extraction.
• Statistics.
  • The missions and side-missions you've done.
  • Number of bullets fired.
  • A few others.
• Current mission information.

Features in Just Cause 2

• Map of Panau.

  

  • Showing the borders of the faction territories.
  • Conditions and locations of all "discovered" settlements.
  • Race locations and basic data.
  • Mission locations.
• Setting waypoints to the map.
• Incoming news through the Panau Broadcasting Company.
• Info about the main characters of the game.
• A list of all vehicles, with updated markings for the ones you've driven.
• Extraction.
• Chaos points.
• Money.
• Approximate amount of progress needed to unlock the next missions and Black Market items.
• The number of collectible items that you have, left over from the last time you upgraded any weapons and vehicles.
• Statistics.

Other info

• The PDA is known to use digital memory cards.
• It can be taken apart and bugged in under a minute, while the device is at the same time downloading info.
• It can wirelessly download info from laptops.
• The Ular Boys civillian business associate Portugese Pete is known to have owned a PDA.
• All Panauan facton leaders are aware, but not amazed by the PDAs abilities, which means that the Personal Digital Assistant is a pretty common device in the fictional Just Cause universe. Possibly similarly to "smartphones" in reality.