PDA Sales Down, Vendors Quitting the Market

According a variety of new reports, the PDA market is drying up. In the year between the second quarter of 2006 and the second quarter of 2007, for instance, PDAs saw an astonishing 43.5 percent decrease in worldwide shipments, and no more than a million devices were sold in the quarter.
Well, theres a basic reason for this. The cellular phone. Most people used their PDA as a contact list/phone number manager and cell phones do that by design. The rise of smartphones like the Treo and Blackberry mate the functionality of the two devices pretty successfully and have already been adopted as a PDA replacement by most PDA users. Why carry around two devices anymore?

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