World PDA Shipments Plunge"> World PDA Shipments Plunge

Looks like “smartphones” and other two-way communication devices are taking a bite out of the old PDA market. According to The Register, “PDA shipments may be rising in Europe, but around the world as a whole they continued to decline during the first three months of the year, market watcher IDC reports.

“A dip between Q1 2004 and Q4 2003 is only to be expected given consumer spending patterns in the holiday season, but as IDC’s fuller European figures show, consumers are proving more interested in smart phones than PDAs. Buyers of high-end devices in particular are opting for handhelds with voice communications built in, the researcher said.”