Updates on the PDA-smartphone numbers wars

A few years ago, the trend was owning a decked out PDA with all the trimmings. These days, the smartphone’s pulling ahead in the tech race.

According to Gartner Research, North America‘s the only strong point left in the world for PDA’s, accounting for 45 percent of worldwide PDA shipments earlier this year. Even then, of the 42.1 million recorded shipments of PDA’s and smartphones recorded this year, 34.7 million were found to be Smartphones.

Nokia currently owns 50% of the smartphone market, with similar companies like RIM reaping steady benefits from their BlackBerry phone.

Palm, one the better known PDA brands, is steadily losing out in this race, owning only five percent of the PDA and smartphone market. Palm’s banking on its Treo series smartphone at the moment, with no revent news on a new PDA model for for this year.

What’s the cause for this trend shift putting the likes of Nokia at the lead?

Gartner researcher Roberta Cozza say this about the increasing demand in smartphones: “Consumer taste and fashion, advances in PIM software and messaging, and rapidly declining prices all combined to drive the strong growth in smartphone sales.”

Via arstechnica

A few years ago, the trend was owning a decked out PDA with all the trimmings. These days, the smartphone’s pulling ahead in the tech race.

According to Gartner Research, North America‘s the only strong point left in the world for PDA’s, accounting for 45 percent of worldwide PDA shipments earlier this year. Even then, of the 42.1 million recorded shipments of PDA’s and smartphones recorded this year, 34.7 million were found to be Smartphones.

Nokia currently owns 50% of the smartphone market, with similar companies like RIM reaping steady benefits from their BlackBerry phone.

Palm, one the better known PDA brands, is steadily losing out in this race, owning only five percent of the PDA and smartphone market. Palm’s banking on its Treo series smartphone at the moment, with no revent news on a new PDA model for for this year.

What’s the cause for this trend shift putting the likes of Nokia at the lead?

Gartner researcher Roberta Cozza say this about the increasing demand in smartphones: “Consumer taste and fashion, advances in PIM software and messaging, and rapidly declining prices all combined to drive the strong growth in smartphone sales.”

Via arstechnica