PDA sales fall for the fifteenth quarter

New figures from market analysis firm, IDC, show that PDA sales have fallen for the fifteenth quarter on year-on-year basis, and are almost 40% lower than for the 2006 same period.

In the third quarter of 2007, just 728,894 PDAs were sold globally, as more people turned to smartphones.

However, PDAs are still popular with some business users, with Palm devices responsible for the highest number of sales, followed by HP, Mio, Sharp and Fujitsu-Siemens.

Palm shipped 325,000 units in the third quarter of 2007, a year-on-year decline of 28 percent, and it is over two years since the company released a new model.

Some vendors, including Fujitsu-Siemens have exited the PDA market completely, and many product lines are being ended.

The PDA is popular in some emerging market, because of the low cost of ownership, with no network contract required.