HP has boosted its share in the PDA market in recent months by being the first manufacturer to launch products using Microsoft's PocketPC 2002, and if the mobile networks get their marketing in order, they may well repeat the trick with the GPRS...
Fujitsu-Siemens was due to ship what would have been the first Xscale-based PDA, the Pocket Loox, in May, but the launch has been put back to June or July, fuelling speculation that technical problems with the new processors were to blame.
Despite this, the PDA pioneer has been stressing the wide range of devices based on the Palm OS. PalmSource disputes such assertions, even claiming Word documents manipulated on a Palm PDA look better when synced back onto a PC than when they have...
By adding Handspring's Treo hybrid mobile phone/PDA to its own line of Palm personal digital assistants (PDAs), Palm believes it can create a much broader product line, giving it an advantage in the market.
Research house IDC is warning PDA manufacturers that customers will soon start ditching their handhelds if they do not start offering voice functionality. In fact, IDC forecasts that the converged market will see its strongest year of growth in...
Garner blames the stagnant US market on the continuing decline in Palm OS PDA shipments and aging product lines among Microsoft licensees. Falling prices and wireless connectivity have breathed new life into the PDA market, with sales so far this...
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