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I said several times on this site that this is the future of handhelds.
However it's going to take intel's/amd's new super low power processors, more integration, and work by MS to optimize XP for these size devices. That will take about 2 more years to hit a PPC sized device, IF MS decides that they want these kind of devices to succeed. (They have financial incentive to do so, but this is MS...)
IF these come out in a couple of years at <$800, I would expect Symbian to still succeed (because Nokia will ship it out in practically everything they make...), I would expect that Palm would survive in a diminished role (because they're not MS..., unless P1 continues to do stupid things...), and I would expect WM/PPC to dissappear after 4-5 years (most are bought by businesses, it's far enough into the future for PPC owners to not worry about it for right now).
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