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PDA Sales Fall for Third Year in Row

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-me-explain-convergence dept.

A reader writes "Reports ZDNet on how PDA sales have slipped for a third year in a row now at a five-year low." Anyone have numbers for sales of cell phones? My cell phone has almost every piece of functionality I got from my PDA 3 years ago. Plus a crappy camera. Still no dice roller.

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  1. Re:There can be only one... by Java+Ape · · Score: 5, Insightful
    LOL! I am the laughing stock of WSU, where I'm working on an M.S. in computer science. EVERYONE has a laptop, and most of them play games or chat during lecture. I bring a $0.75 spiral notebook and a pencil, just like when I was a kid.

    It works surprisingly well -- I get highly-formatted text, including greek and cyrillic characters as needed. I can reproduce complex drawings, including simple gray-scale shading. In shorthand mode, I can capture output in near real time, and in high-quality output mode other students can generally read my notes. Pretty amazing things, these pencils.

    I watched a fellow student using both thumbs to frantically poke tic-tac sized buttons on his PDA's integrated keyboard, and offered him a piece of paper and a spare pencil. "No way", he said, "this is a $500 PDA!". Sigh.