Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Global PDA shipments drop

Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs) <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/11/HNpdasuffers_1.html">continued to decline in the third quarter of this year</A> as mobile phones with similar functions claimed a portion of their market, Gartner Inc. said this week. InfoWorld reports that global PDA shipments slipped 0.2 percent in the third quarter to 2.52 million units, resulting in the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines. Palm Inc. was the leading PDA provider during the quarter, however, taking 34.2 percent of the market with 861,500 units shipped.

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