Non-Voice PDA Sales Continue to Decline

1:32 am on November 2, 2005 | Category: Business, Mobile Devices, PDAs

According to International Data Corp., the past few months have seen consumer sales of non-voice-enabled PDAs slide for the seventh consecutive quarter.

The number of PDA shipments was down a significant 16.9% from last year’s third quarter. Market analysts believe that this change is mostly due to increasing competition from more advanced devices, such as smartphones, which offer both voice and handheld computing functions.

Market demand is clearly shifting more towards all-in-one hybrid devices, and away from traditional handheld organizers.

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