A new report from market research firm Gartner, Inc. finds that PDA shipments increased by 21 percent worldwide during the third quarter of 2005, a 20.7 percent increase over the same period in 2004. At current rates, more than 15 million PDAs will ship during 2005, surpassing the PDA’s best sales year to date, 2001, by nearly 2 million units.
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Worldwide PDA Market Up
Shipments of 3.6 million units have been reported for the second quarter of 2005, a number 36% greater than last year’s performance. At this pace 15 million units will ship by the end of the year, surpassing the old record set in 2001 of 13.2 million units.
“Wireless PDAs are increasingly seen as an adjunct or alternative to notebook computers, while favorable exchange rates have enabled more Europeans to purchase PDAs at an attractive price. These factors have aided in the recovery of the slumping PDA market of 2002-2004.” said Todd Kort, principal analyst in Gartner’s Computing Platforms Worldwide group.
Worldwide PDA Shipments Grew 7 Percent
An increased average selling price (ASP) drove worldwide PDA revenue to a record $4.3 billion in 2004, a 16.7 percent increase from the year before. In the fourth quarter of 2004, the ASP of PDAsreached $353, up 9.4 percent from 2003.
“The PDA market has shifted from unconnected organizers overwhelmingly purchased by consumers to a market in which 44 percent of the devices shipped in 2004 offered integrated wireless area network (WAN) and/or wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity,” said Todd Kort, principal analyst in Gartner’s Computing Platforms Worldwide group. “Wireless PDAs generally have higher ASPs, driving the market to record revenue. Another factor for the increased revenue is that nearly half of all PDAs are now purchased, or reimbursed, by enterprises.”
PDA Shipments Return To Growth
Worldwide personal digital assistant (PDA) shipments totaled 2.75 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 12 percent increase from the second quarter of 2003, according to preliminary resultsby Gartner, Inc. The year-over-year growth rate broke a string of 10 consecutive quarterly shipment declines.
The industry’s growth is largely attributed to the significant increase in Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) BlackBerry shipments. RIM’s shipments increased 289 percent in the second quarter of 2004 (see Table 1). The company’s success was driven by the BlackBerry’s e-mail capabilities, as well as a growing number of third-party applications and wireless data services that are becoming available to BlackBerry users.
PDA Sales Drop 5% First Quarter
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, said Todd Kort, a principal analyst with Gartner.
Microsoft, PalmSource Share PDA Market Lead
From Gartner’s press release:
Worldwide PDA shipments declined 4.6 percent in the first quarter of 2004, but the battle for the PDA operating system market has heated up as PalmSource and Microsoft were in a virtual tie in shipments in the first quarter of 2004, according to preliminary results from Gartner, Inc.
Palm OS shipments declined by 20.7 percent in the first quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year (see Table 1). Palm OS market share slipped to 40.7 percent, while the Windows CE market share increased to 40.2 percent. Microsoft licensees have been steadily chipping away at the Palm OS lead since 2000, when Microsoft accounted for 11 percent of the PDA market.
Worldwide PDA shipments declined 11 Percent
Continuing economic stagnation affected the worldwide PDA market as shipments totaled 2.8 million units in the first quarter of 2003, an 11.1 percent decline from the same period last year, accordingto preliminary statistics from Gartner, In the first quarter of 2002, worldwide PDA shipments totaled 3.2 million.
Palm held onto the top spot in the worldwide rankings with 32.8 percent of PDA shipments (see Table 1). Although Palm shipped more that twice the units of its nearest competitor, its market sharecontinued to decline. Hewlett-Packard remained in the No. 2 spot with 16 percent of the market, followed by Sony, with market share of 13.3 percent. Toshiba and Sony showed the strongest growth amongthe top-tier vendors with growth rates of 276 percent and 60 percent, respectively.
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