Reuters via eWeek: Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would stop making personal digital assistants for Japan in July...
...completing its withdrawal from a market hit by multi-functional cellphones and casting a shadow over the tools' growth potential. The move was widely expected after the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said last year it would stop selling new handheld digital assistants outside Japan. [...] "The PDA market is being encroached by cellphones and other mobile devices that can offer similar functions, making it difficult for PDAs to maintain their position in the market," a Sony spokeswoman said.
To close observers of the market, this news won't be any surprise. The report says it all - the PDA market is being encroached by cellphones and other mobile devices that can offer similar functions.
I've still got a first-generation
search engine belt buckle). I've even got an old
Vodafone - everywhere I go, I can find a Vodafone network)
- sends and receives multimedia SMS messages
- takes photos and lets me record video
- enables me to send and receive email, files, video, etc,
- lets me easily synchronize whatever stuff I want to and from my PCs wirelessly - no cables, cradles or anything like that, nor Bluetooth, just wi-fi
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