Techs & Trends
smart phone Vs pda based phones
Hello folks,
what's your take in the next 2 - 3 years for smart phone vs pda based phones capturing majority market share? Which will prevail?
On a related note, Gartner estimates that smart phone shipment will overtake pdas (not pda-phones). Link ->
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?a ... »
Price of the both types of phones is bound to go down with time.
Personally, I prefer a PDA phone to a smart phone should the cost be lesser than what it is right now. What other factors do you think are keeping the PDA based phone at bay?
Form factor?
Features (Camera?)
OS?
Both types of equipment have essentially outsourced the UI to software 3rd party (Mico$oft, Symbian..)
Do you think this will be ...
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what's your take in the next 2 - 3 years for smart phone vs pda based phones capturing majority market share? Which will prevail?
On a related note, Gartner estimates that smart phone shipment will overtake pdas (not pda-phones). Link ->
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?a ... »
Price of the both types of phones is bound to go down with time.
Personally, I prefer a PDA phone to a smart phone should the cost be lesser than what it is right now. What other factors do you think are keeping the PDA based phone at bay?
Form factor?
Features (Camera?)
OS?
Both types of equipment have essentially outsourced the UI to software 3rd party (Mico$oft, Symbian..)
Do you think this will be ...
(continues)
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