Sunday, June 9, 2002
Pocket PCs invade Australia
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "NEWS" @ 11:43 PM
http://itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=10010
Let's kick off this week with a sunshine article! The Australian PDA market was recently analyzed by mobile research specialist Inform, and I found some interesting remarks in an article commenting on the analysis. It seems as if the Australian PDA market is very similar to the Swedish PDA market in that the Pocket PC is overtaking Palm in market share and sales revenue. This has already happened in Sweden, and is happening as we "speak" in Australia.
Palm's market share dipped below 40 percent in April, while HP's Compaq products has grown their share to 33 percent. According to the article the product in demand is the iPAQ 3870 Pocket PC. In April, this bluetooth enabled Pocket PC sold "about double that of the Palm 515."
Finally, it seems that the Australian PDA market has discovered Toshiba too: "Solyom predicted extremely strong sales for Toshiba, which entered the market recently, and will launch a new model - with integrated Bluetooth - that will compete directly with the Ipaq 3870 and the high-end Palm." (Thanks to Mark Hansen for the link!)
Let's kick off this week with a sunshine article! The Australian PDA market was recently analyzed by mobile research specialist Inform, and I found some interesting remarks in an article commenting on the analysis. It seems as if the Australian PDA market is very similar to the Swedish PDA market in that the Pocket PC is overtaking Palm in market share and sales revenue. This has already happened in Sweden, and is happening as we "speak" in Australia.
Palm's market share dipped below 40 percent in April, while HP's Compaq products has grown their share to 33 percent. According to the article the product in demand is the iPAQ 3870 Pocket PC. In April, this bluetooth enabled Pocket PC sold "about double that of the Palm 515."
Finally, it seems that the Australian PDA market has discovered Toshiba too: "Solyom predicted extremely strong sales for Toshiba, which entered the market recently, and will launch a new model - with integrated Bluetooth - that will compete directly with the Ipaq 3870 and the high-end Palm." (Thanks to Mark Hansen for the link!)
