09-17-2002, 07:00 PM
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Top selling PDAs at eShop
http://eshop.msn.com/search/topproducts.aspx?catId=275&pcId=190
How much things change in a year. Scott Savage sends us this link that has the top selling PDAs at MSN's eShop right now. Some of the results may surprise you.
1. Sony Clie NR-70V
2. Toshiba e310
3. Sony Clie T665c
4. Toshiba e740
5. Palm M515
6. Palm M130
7. Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
8. Compaq iPAQ 3955
9. Sony Clie NR-70
10. Sony Clie T615c
This time last year, the iPAQ would have been the hands down Pocket PC lead and Palm would have been the Palm OS lead. I wonder what this list will look like next year?
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09-17-2002, 07:06 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
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So what do we have here ?
6 Palm OS
3 PPC
1 Linux
And design is the most important thing as Sony and Toshiba position themselves as great designed devices. Design is also the leading Palm (515).
After all, in the modern world people seem to look for something different ! Go for it designers ! :wink:
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09-17-2002, 07:28 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Toshiba
I wouldn't be surprised to see Toshiba running away with the prize in the end. Now you can get an e740 for about $400 USD net. How could one pass up that much power for the price?
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09-17-2002, 07:34 PM
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Thinker
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I don't find these results very surprising, except maybe for the absense of low-end (i.e., monochrome) Palm brand units. I had thought that's what boosted their market share (in units) to where it is, despite not having any compelling offerings technology-wise.
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09-17-2002, 07:34 PM
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Re: Toshiba
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Originally Posted by JonnoB
I wouldn't be surprised to see Toshiba running away with the prize in the end. Now you can get an e740 for about $400 USD net. How could one pass up that much power for the price?
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That is great if Toshiba is making a profit and the retailer is too. Selling products at a loss or break even is no good for the product line long term. I don't know if they are making a profit or not, just saying low retail price doesn't mean a successful line.
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09-17-2002, 07:59 PM
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Pupil
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Hi Ed,
Do you know what success is ? It has one name Toshiba and i'll tell you why ?
1. It has passed form unknown to number #1 in the world for pocket pc selling growth.
2. It has better technology than any other pocketpc manufacturer (including hp/compaq). It has integrated wireless lan, multiple expansion slot on onde vice, vga and usb expansion in one device, 4 inch screen, addon battery of 3000amp. And so on and on. The only thing that ipaq has is screen (which should be temporaly). ?don't tak about sleeve everybody hate it.
3. Better price than the concurent except maestro which is a toshiba !!!
4. Less return than any other pocket pc.
So yes Toshiba has made an impact and a success of their pocket pc and just because of that people will now try to copy them because they are the standard to go with. Nobody need sleeves ... anything is availabel through compact flash and/or sdio.
In europe we know that ipaq is popular but in north america, it's more like a palm world and on the other side a toshibas world or soon will be.
Let people buy 400$ e740 and you'll what it will brign to toshiba and what they will do next for en encore, i'm predicting it's going to be very sweet, integrated and smalll .. can you dig :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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09-17-2002, 07:59 PM
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Sage
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My bet is 90-100% Japanese manufacturers e.g. Sony, Toshiba, and Sharp.
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09-17-2002, 08:12 PM
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Intellectual
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Toshiba may do more to bring Pocket PCs into the mainstream than any other company, simply by selling a decent device at a good price. It makes you wonder that if Toshiba can do this in about a year, why couldn't any of the existing Pocket PC OEMS have done it a year or so ago?
Just think where we could have been if there were good <= $300 Pocket PC 2000 devices....
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09-17-2002, 08:38 PM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by fmcpherson
Toshiba may do more to bring Pocket PCs into the mainstream than any other company, simply by selling a decent device at a good price. It makes you wonder that if Toshiba can do this in about a year, why couldn't any of the existing Pocket PC OEMS have done it a year or so ago?
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Agreed - they're doing now what they did to the notebook market 5-8 years ago - they're still the best notebooks on the market, too.
However, I think that everyone will be shocked and amazed when Dell's PPC hits shelves this fall ... and they might even do more. Dell doesn't jump until they have a good product, at a great price, and they believe they've got a market...
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09-17-2002, 08:42 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by gmelfissg
1. It has passed form unknown to number #1 in the world for pocket pc selling growth.
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First of all, it isn't the #1 selling Pocket PC. The iPAQ still reigns supreme in that. This is just what eShops sees.
If you are talking about #1 in growth, I don't give much credence to those types of statistics. For example, if the eDPDA sold 2 units in 2001 and this year I've sold 10 units, that is a 500% increase, easily the fastest growing PDA in the world, but it doesn't mean much.
That is not to take away from what Toshiba has done. Great product. Great for the PPC platform. But given the recent IDC reports we've seen, Toshiba has a loooooooooooooong way to go to topple the iPAQ as the big seller.
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