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Ed Hansberry
11-06-2003, 04:00 AM
<a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126245&amp;liFlavourID=1&amp;sp=1">http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126245&amp;liFlavourID=1&amp;sp=1</a><br /><br />"Microsoft has set a target to sell 100 million personal digital assistants and smart phones running Windows by 2007. The goal was set by Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer for the company's Windows Mobile unit, and shows that Microsoft is serious about this market, said Douglas Dedo, marketing manager for Windows Mobile at Microsoft."<br /><br />Granted, a lot of those will be Smartphones, but many here have started claiming that MS doesn't care about the Pocket PC. I think this shows otherwise. Only the market will tell in the future if there is room for the PDA, which really falls into an argument about semantics. Is it still a "Pocket PC" if it is clamshell, has a cell phone radio built in but retains a touch screen? Maybe that is a Smartphone, maybe that is a hybrid. Either way, it is a device that allows for data centric users that today's Pocket PC targets.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2003/20031105-100millppc.jpg" /><br /><i>Did you say <span>100 million</span>?</i><br /><br />The other interesting tidbit mentioned was Pocket PC sales. "Windows-based PDAs in the first half of 2003 grew 32% over the previous year to 1.95 million, according to Gartner." 1.95 million units and there is only one week of Windows Mobile 2003 devices in that. 8O

JustinGTP
11-06-2003, 06:56 AM
wm2003 rocks, no wonder it sells so well, apart from the occasional disfunctional alarms :D

Anyways, I think it is acheivable, especially with the larger resolutions becoming available. The Tablet PC has got a competitor soon enough I say!

-Justin.

Fitch
11-06-2003, 09:49 AM
Did you say....

100 MILLION personal digital assistants and smart phones running Windows?
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2003/20031105-100millppc.jpg
Mmmuahahahaha. Muahahahahaha. MUAHahahahahha.
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uhum.

Ed Hansberry
11-06-2003, 12:52 PM
Did you say....

100 MILLION personal digital assistants and smart phones running Windows?
:rotfl:

That pic goes on the front page. :way to go:

pr0vider
11-06-2003, 01:48 PM
Ballmer must have been running around in his butterfly costume when he said that...

MobileAGBell
11-06-2003, 04:41 PM
Here's another interesting spin on 2003 PPC growth.

http://www.mobilepipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=15600756

Thinkingmandavid
11-06-2003, 05:06 PM
And you were wondering the future of the ppc :roll:
I like the pic, and yes it does belong on the front page. Glad I saw it there

Terry
11-06-2003, 06:13 PM
My MPx200 winds up with a soft reset every other day. Sometimes this reset requires removing the battery. Most consumers aren't going to put up with rebooting their phone (or with alarms that don't work)!

:ppclove: I pine for the days when my analog StarTac just worked or was dead.

DareDevilNZ
11-06-2003, 08:43 PM
I think you mean "semantics" :wink:

Kati Compton
11-06-2003, 09:15 PM
I think you mean "semantics" :wink:
Fixed.

Janak Parekh
11-06-2003, 11:33 PM
My MPx200 winds up with a soft reset every other day. Sometimes this reset requires removing the battery. Most consumers aren't going to put up with rebooting their phone (or with alarms that don't work)!
From what I've heard, just turn the phone off and on -- that is essentially a "soft reset" on Smartphones. And mind you, my T68 would start getting unstable if I didn't turn it off for a while... ;)

--janak

Terry
11-10-2003, 07:05 AM
From what I've heard, just turn the phone off and on -- that is essentially a "soft reset" on Smartphones. And mind you, my T68 would start getting unstable if I didn't turn it off for a while... ;)

--janak

You're correct, but after installing a trial copy of Pharos SmartTraffic, my MPx200 locked up such that even the power button failed. The only recourse was removing the battery.

Off topic: I have not been able to get SmartTraffic working...something about password problems. Even if it does work, I doubt I'll pay 3.95/mo. for traffic reports via SmartPhone.