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Mike Temporale
08-08-2006, 10:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1954748,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1954748,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Just a few years ago, Palm OSruled the mobile landscape. Handspring, Qualcomm, and Samsung all brought out compelling smartphones with the easy-to-use PalmSource software. But in 2006, it's increasingly becoming a Windows Mobile world. Windows gadgets from Dell, HP, HTC, and even Palm flood wireless carriers' stores. The formidable PalmSource has been reduced to one smartphone, the Treo 650, and a handful of PDAs. In the fourth quarter of 2005, Microsoft licensees shipped 2.1 million Windows Mobile PDAs, almost double the number of Palm OS PDAs shipped that quarter, according to Gartner Dataquest. In-Stat principal analyst Bill Hughes sees Windows smartphone sales jumping to 6.7 million in 2006, with RIM and Palm at about 3.7 million each."</i><br /><br />This article over at PC Mag has some pretty interesting numbers in it. It also goes on to talk about what Microsoft has done to go from last place to first and what the competitors didn't do that helped out Microsoft. Check it out and let us know your thoughts.
onlydarksets
08-09-2006, 02:06 PM
Other than the fact that the author doesn't seem to be up on the latest phones (only one Palm phone? ahem, 700p (http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&amp;action=viewPhoneDetail&amp;selectedPhoneId=2324)?), he makes some good points.
Mike Temporale
08-09-2006, 02:19 PM
Other than the fact that the author doesn't seem to be up on the latest phones (only one Palm phone? ahem, 700p (http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&amp;action=viewPhoneDetail&amp;selectedPhoneId=2324)?), he makes some good points.

With magazines, the articles are often written a couple months before they are published. So it might have been the case when the article was written. But not now. Regardless, one or two phones, it's not very much.
onlydarksets
08-09-2006, 02:24 PM
The 700p has been out since early June, so I doubt that's the case. My point was not that he is wrong because there are 2 phones instead of 1. My point is that I question how much he keeps up with the market.