12-08-2005, 09:00 AM
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Results of the Second Annual Spb Pocket PC Survey
"Spb Software House announces the results of the second annual Spb Pocket PC Survey, a global survey for Pocket PC users. We would like to thank all who participated in the survey. The results of this survey will help us understand Pocket PC users and their needs better. This year we have the exciting opportunity to compare the results of the two surveys and understand what changes are occurring within the Pocket PC community. Our desire is for everyone to see the up-to-date situation in the Pocket PC world. Therefore, we are publishing the comparative statistical results of the two surveys. Spb Surveys are an important part of Spb's strategy to give back to the Pocket PC community and the results have been as highly appreciated by developers and manufacturers as they have been by users."
Remember the Spb Pocket PC survey from last month? The results have been publicly released and here are some interesting facts:
� Users have three times more Phone Editions than a year ago.
� HP iPAQ lost almost a half of its market share in connection with the growing number of Dell Axim and Phone Edition devices.
� The average storage card size is 1.16 GB, which is 3.5 times more than a year ago.
� 85% users use Pocket PCs to connect to the Internet. It's a more important thing than games now.
You might also remember that completion of the survey entered you into the draw to win an i-mate JASJAR. That lucky person is Paolo Animato. Congratulations! If you're interested in seeing the complete results, click here.
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12-08-2005, 10:04 AM
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Thinker
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I was thinking about this the other day. HP have really lost out here. I remember when HP ruled in pocketpc's.
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12-08-2005, 11:49 AM
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Mystic
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So, from a quick perusal of the results, the online PPC community has become younger, more male, and are very diverse in what they value in their devices. Aesthetics were almost last however. VGA devices were very well represented, and it seems if an OEM wants to grab marketshare a VGA device is the way to do it (look at the Loox 720, which went from 2 to 6% in one year). Most of us are on our second device and are therefore fairly experienced. Avantgo is on its way out.
Surur
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12-08-2005, 12:15 PM
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Thinker
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Originally Posted by Surur
So, from a quick perusal of the results, the online PPC community has become younger, more male, and are very diverse in what they value in their devices. Aesthetics were almost last however. VGA devices were very well represented, and it seems if an OEM wants to grab marketshare a VGA device is the way to do it (look at the Loox 720, which went from 2 to 6% in one year). Most of us are on our second device and are therefore fairly experienced. Avantgo is on its way out.
Surur
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Avantgo? What is avantgo?... </sarcasm>
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12-08-2005, 04:05 PM
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Thinker
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That's quite interesting reading.
Coincidentally, I just bought exactly a 1.16GB SD card, too. Just like 2.3 kids in an average family. 
My first Pocket PC device (I think it was a Cassiopeia E-115) was primarily a game device. I installed every game I could throw at it.
Now, my latest device, a Qtek 9000 (HTC Universal) is all about email, web browsing, telephony, retrieving information (like movies and weather - I use Acodic Info2Go), and instant messaging. I may have less than 4 or 5 good games on it, and even then, I rarely play them.
I agree with the "What's AvantGo?" phrase. I didn't understand their direction back then (think they made a couple of bad moves, like restricting sizes and links in the past), even its only competitor then Mazingo (remember them?) shut down. But now, with RSS feeds and free or inexpensive aggregators (Egress, NewsBreak, etc.), and the fact that AvantGo remains totally absent from recent devices when it was initially built-in to the ROM, I feel it's one of the final nails in its coffin.
Same with iPAQ. Replete with consumer complaints to this day with their horrible support and stances, HP goes and picks up the then-most popular Pocket PC device on the market, the iPAQ, and kill it. If "invent" was their motto, they surely invented a way to totally destroy something lucrative. No one has been more successful at that than, say, Rick Berman and Star Trek.
Convergence is key. No more Batman utility belt for me. That was so 90's. I have one device - heck, I'd get rid of my Bluetooth headset if it was either permanently implanted or if my converged device was small enough. But, I have to compensate somewhere...
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12-08-2005, 04:17 PM
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Theorist
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Originally Posted by Raphael143
Just like 2.3 kids in an average family. |
I guess the 0.3 figure stands for trying ... :mrgreen:
Now seriously, I still use my iPaq 2210, I love it and I'm sure my next device will be anything but HP and I agree with you concerning AvantGo, its fate is clear.
Regards.
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12-08-2005, 06:35 PM
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Pontificator
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Fujitsu-Siemens could find much to be happy about in that survey. After the inevitable HP and Dell (and, of course, the HTC/mobile phone branded devices) they are now effectively the third main player - even more remarkable considering a) they don't sell in the USA (how big would their share be if they did?) and b) they have effectively got that share through one model (the Loox 400 series hardly registers).
With at least 5 models of Loox, covering a wide range of abilities (in particular phone and GPS - the two main killer PDA techs now), and rumoured direct US sales in 2006 - who knows what will happen...?
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12-08-2005, 09:20 PM
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Thinker
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HP definitely lost it here. I now automatically assume an HP device is just going to plain suck now. I still say the last great HP device was the 4155, which is still a great device. I can no longer abide carrying more than one data device. It must have a phone built in for me to use it. I keep hearing about the unconverged devices coming out, but none of them get a second glance from me.
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12-09-2005, 04:45 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Duncan
Fujitsu-Siemens could find much to be happy about in that survey. After the inevitable HP and Dell (and, of course, the HTC/mobile phone branded devices) they are now effectively the third main player - even more remarkable considering a) they don't sell in the USA (how big would their share be if they did?) and b) they have effectively got that share through one model (the Loox 400 series hardly registers).
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Right. If they expanded outside of Europe (namely, North America and the Asia-Pacific), they could really hit the jackpot, especially with all the neat models they have planned for the next year or so.
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