Another nail in the PDA’s coffin?
Posted by Chris Leckness on 10/30/06 in Axim, PocketPC, iPAQ
David Haskin has written a great story that David will really like. I urge you to follow the link below to read the entire article. (warning, its long)
Palm wasn’t the first to introduce a PDA, as any fan of the Apple Newton will tell you. And it isn’t the first to offer a smart phone for $200 or less. Similarly priced phones such as the Nokia E62 and the BlackBerry Pearl are already available. Smart phones typically can access e-mail and the Web, manage personal information and be used for phone calls.
But Palm had the marketing savvy 10 years ago to make the Palm Pilot a widespread success. And it likely still has the savvy to turn the smart phone, which so far has been embraced primarily by early adopters doling out as much as $600, into a mainstream tool for consumers. The irony is that the victim of lower smart phone prices will be Palm’s first big innovation, the PDA.
“Clearly, PDAs as a growth market are done,” said Neil Strother, a mobile devices market analyst at research firm NPD Group Inc.
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