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Report on Growth in Wireless Handheld Market Flawed?
A new Gartner report indicates strong wireless device sales. But the market share data could be erroneous, thanks to a rather arbitrary classification of smartphones and PDAs.
July 1, 2005
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According to Gartner, wireless PDAs are mainly used for data apps and typically are operated with two hands. Smartphones are used for voice and operated with one hand. But in an era when voice and data are rapidly converging, this distinction seems arbitrary. Palm essentially invented the PDA, and the Treo has almost all the functionality of PalmOne's other PDA devices, except for Wi-Fi capabilities.
Yet even a classification scheme based on Wi-Fi would be fleeting as convergence steers its own relentless course.
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