Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Sony Throws In The Towel On PDA Market
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 07:00 AM
http://www.akihabaranews.com/news_9240.html
"Well, it seems that the rumours have become reality, and after throwing the towel in Europe and the States, the Japanese giant decided to stop the production of its last Clie models (VZ90 and TH55) in July 2005. Impress has the dirt on this story, and they say that the PSP will fill up the gap. Impress makes it clear at the end of their article that Sony will focus on the PSP and mobile phones so will we have a PDAphone soon in Japan?"
As far as I am concerned, when they left North America and Europe, that was the end. I don't see much of a future for PDA owners when it comes to these game machines with some PDA functionality either. If you have a full blown PDA now, connected or not, are you really going to "upgrade" to a Sony PSP? I guess those using a PDA almost exclusively as a mobile gaming platform might, but the rest of us? Will those things even have touch screens?
"Well, it seems that the rumours have become reality, and after throwing the towel in Europe and the States, the Japanese giant decided to stop the production of its last Clie models (VZ90 and TH55) in July 2005. Impress has the dirt on this story, and they say that the PSP will fill up the gap. Impress makes it clear at the end of their article that Sony will focus on the PSP and mobile phones so will we have a PDAphone soon in Japan?"
As far as I am concerned, when they left North America and Europe, that was the end. I don't see much of a future for PDA owners when it comes to these game machines with some PDA functionality either. If you have a full blown PDA now, connected or not, are you really going to "upgrade" to a Sony PSP? I guess those using a PDA almost exclusively as a mobile gaming platform might, but the rest of us? Will those things even have touch screens?
