Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants continued to decline in the third quarter of this year as mobile phones with similar functions claimed a portion of their market,
Global PDA shipments slipped 0.2 percent in the third quarter to 2.52 million units, resulting in the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines.
What’s more, the market slump would have been even more profound had Hewlett-Packard not refreshed its product line with a series of lower-priced PDAs and offered operating system upgrades to its installed base, Gartner said. HP introduced five new models in the quarter, the researcher said, and grabbed 23.1 percent of the market share with 581,414 units shipped.
HP managed to increase the number of units it shipped during the quarter by 98.5 percent.
