No more PDAs from Palm?
Palm recently refreshed their website for the new year. It’s more streamlined and looks good, for a corporate website. Palm now has only 3 products on sale, all of them smartphones : The Treo Pro (Windows Mobile, GSM), Treo 800w (Windows Mobile, Sprint/EVDO) and the Centro (Palm OS Garnet, GSM).
Palm hasn’t officially announced the discontinuation of its PDA line, but I guess this is as good an indication as any. The last two PDAs for Palm were the TX and the entry level Z22.
Can we now declare the PDA as dead? Well, the PDA function is now more or less absorbed by personal media players, the most visible (and most successful?) of which is the Apple iPod touch. The second generation iPod touch has a great touchscreen, storage capacity up to a whopping 32GB, a similar form factor to the Palm TX (but slimmer and sexier) and does sync your personal information (contacts, appointments etc). It also has access to 10,000+ third party applications, a number that once only Palm could boast of.
Whatever Palm is going to announce at CES tomorrow, it’s sure to be a smartphone, and not a PDA.
The PDA is dead, long live the PDA?
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