Buoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry’s, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increased 25 percent to 3.4 million in the first quarter of 2005. “It’s a little surprising, it’s higher than I predicted,” Todd Kort, principal analyst, Gartner, and co-author of the report, told TechNewsWorld.
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PDA Market Makes Surprising Leap
Posted by: Susan B. Shor May 6, 2005 10:52 AMBuoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry’s, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increased 25 percent to 3.4 million in the first quarter of 2005. “It’s a little surprising, it’s higher than I predicted,” Todd Kort, principal analyst, Gartner, and co-author of the report, told TechNewsWorld.