Of course, PDAs will soon die out, however all of their functions will still be in existence. Such as a regular old cell phone with calender and word processing fuctions. However there is still one thing before someone will go and buy one of the darn things: carrier.
Let's say that Cingular wireless does not have
PhonePDA. However Nextel does, but you can't switch because you are a Cingular customer who still has another year until the contract ends. What do you do? You buy a regular PDA. And since you might want stability, you avoid buying a ultra small computer running windows xp and instead go for the cheap and stable design of a Palm handheld device. Don't be so sure about the immediate demise of the PDA, because it's not going out the window for another couple of years.
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Of course, PDAs will soon die out, however all of their functions will still be in existence. Such as a regular old cell phone with calender and word processing fuctions. However there is still one thing before someone will go and buy one of the darn things: carrier. Let's say that Cingular wireless does not have PhonePDA. However Nextel does, but you can't switch because you are a Cingular customer who still has another year until the contract ends. What do you do? You buy a regular PDA. And since you might want stability, you avoid buying a ultra small computer running windows xp and instead go for the cheap and stable design of a Palm handheld device. Don't be so sure about the immediate demise of the PDA, because it's not going out the window for another couple of years.