Friday, January 3, 2003
First Year of Smartphones
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "ARTICLE" @ 01:15 AM
http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2003/1/2003-1-2-Smartphones-Come-of.html
James Miller at PDAStreet.com has written a nice article about existing PDA/phone hybrids. The article sums up features, price ranges and general comments.
"While advances in general PDA design were either slow in coming, Palm OS 5 and integrated wireless, or didn't pay immediate dividends in terms of performance, Pocket PCs with Intel's XScale processor, the smartphone or PDA/phone hybrid came into its own in this past year. ... Microsoft left no stone unturned by attacking the smartphone from the PDA first/phone second side with its Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system and mobile phone first/PDA second side with its new Windows Powered Smartphone OS."
The image below illustrates some of the prodcuts mentioned in the article and I have placed them in order of looks (left to right, top to bottom). Agree?
James Miller at PDAStreet.com has written a nice article about existing PDA/phone hybrids. The article sums up features, price ranges and general comments.
"While advances in general PDA design were either slow in coming, Palm OS 5 and integrated wireless, or didn't pay immediate dividends in terms of performance, Pocket PCs with Intel's XScale processor, the smartphone or PDA/phone hybrid came into its own in this past year. ... Microsoft left no stone unturned by attacking the smartphone from the PDA first/phone second side with its Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system and mobile phone first/PDA second side with its new Windows Powered Smartphone OS."
The image below illustrates some of the prodcuts mentioned in the article and I have placed them in order of looks (left to right, top to bottom). Agree?
