It seems like the days of the PDA are over, they can't really compete with modern smartphones. In the last two years more and more people have moving away from PDAs to smartphones, which can do it all. The whole PDA market has been on decline since Q2 '05. Dell's sales alone dropped a whopping 34% in Q1 of 2006, while HP's dropped by 30%.
DigiTimes reports that Dell has stopped its
PDA development altogether and has diverted the funding to its notebook division. Dell's last all new PDA model came out in 2004 under the name of X50 Series, which was based on Windows Mobile 2003. A year later, the company released a minor update, the X51 Series, which was basically a X50 with a new name and the new Window Mobile 2005. While it's not surprising that Dell has seen a steady decline in the sale of PDAs, kind of odd that Dell hasn't taken the opportunity to create a smartphone based on the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS like the Motorola Q or Palm Treo 700p.
It seems like the days of the PDA are over, they can't really compete with modern smartphones. In the last two years more and more people have moving away from PDAs to smartphones, which can do it all. The whole PDA market has been on decline since Q2 '05. Dell's sales alone dropped a whopping 34% in Q1 of 2006, while HP's dropped by 30%. DigiTimes reports that Dell has stopped its PDA development altogether and has diverted the funding to its notebook division. Dell's last all new PDA model came out in 2004 under the name of X50 Series, which was based on Windows Mobile 2003. A year later, the company released a minor update, the X51 Series, which was basically a X50 with a new name and the new Window Mobile 2005. While it's not surprising that Dell has seen a steady decline in the sale of PDAs, kind of odd that Dell hasn't taken the opportunity to create a smartphone based on the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS like the Motorola Q or Palm Treo 700p.
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