Tag archive: first three months

Although global sales of PDAs dropped in the first quarter, the battle for handheld operating system market share perked up, a research firm said Friday. According to Gartner, worldwide shipments of PDAs dropped nearly 5% in the first three months of 2004 over the same quarter last year. But the fall in sales was overshadowed by Microsoft dramatically closing the gap between it and PalmSource for the lead in PDA operating system share,… Read More

That period covers the first three months of the console's lifespan – from its launch in mid-December in Japan through to the end of Sony's financial year on March 31st – and probably incorporates projections for both the US and European launches of the system. Although no firm date has yet been given for launches outside Japan (and even the Japanese date is still a somewhat fuzzy “mid to late December”… Read More