Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week. In its recent report on PDAs — defined to include Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, but not smartphones such as the BlackBerry 7100 and Treo 659 — Gartner said PDA shipments grew 32 percent in the second quarter of 2005 over the same period last year.
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Report: PDA Popularity Picks Up After Slump
Posted by: Jay Lyman August 3, 2005 09:15 AMAmid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week. In its recent report on PDAs — defined to include Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, but not smartphones such as the BlackBerry 7100 and Treo 659 — Gartner said PDA shipments grew 32 percent in the second quarter of 2005 over the same period last year.