Several recent reports have claimed that PDA sales have been in decline, but Gartner is taking a different approach. They have release a study that claims sales of PDAs increased 32 percent in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Although several other studies have said that PDA sales are down, Gartner includes in its study devices like Research In Motion's BlackBerry. When you add RIM's numbers in the mix, PDA sales actually increased quite a bit.
"According to Gartner's numbers, RIM is the leading PDA vendor with 23.2 percent of the worldwide PDA market compared to 18.6 percent a year ago. Palm suffered a major decline from first position with 33.2 percent of the market a year ago to second place with 17.8 percent this year. Because of the way Gartner measures, Palm's successful Treo smartphone is not included as a PDA."
Although several other studies have said that PDA sales are down, Gartner includes in its study devices like Research In Motion's BlackBerry. When you add RIM's numbers in the mix, PDA sales actually increased quite a bit.
"According to Gartner's numbers, RIM is the leading PDA vendor with 23.2 percent of the worldwide PDA market compared to 18.6 percent a year ago. Palm suffered a major decline from first position with 33.2 percent of the market a year ago to second place with 17.8 percent this year. Because of the way Gartner measures, Palm's successful Treo smartphone is not included as a PDA."
