Nov 12 2007
The end of PDA’s?
I read about some interesting figures earlier today on the steady decline of PDA sales:
The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments, signaling either vendor intent to scale back production or exit from market entirely, or both. According to IDC’s Worldwide Handheld QView, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld devices in 3Q07, approximately 1.5% more than the previous quarter but 39.3% less from the same quarter a year ago. “The handheld device market has been under constant pressure, with mobile phones and converged mobile devices appropriating many of the handheld’s salient attributes,” says Ramon T. Llamas, research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Device Technology and Trends team. “Handheld product portfolios have suffered as vendors have reallocated their production resources.”
It comes as no great surprise as that PDA sales are falling and I can’t imagine many manufacturers continuing development or production on the basis that the pocket PC phone (PPC) has converged the traditional PDA and the cell phone into one.
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