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News
Issue #2002 - 14
(April 2002)
(Updated Apr.
10, 2002)
MARKET
OUTLOOK & TRENDS
PDA Shipments to Jump 18 Percent
in 2002, study says
After years of unprecedented
growth, the worldwide PDA market stalled last year, but it’s
expected to regain momentum in 2002, according to new study released
by Dataquest, a unit of Gartner, Inc.
In its report, Dataquest says vendor inventories were at
reasonable levels entering 2002 and expects the first half of the
year to continue to be impacted by the continuing economic slowdown.
The PDA market is expected to regain some of its strength in the
second half of 2002 and growth will be even stronger in 2003 as the
economy recovers and business purchases increase.
Forecasts
- In 2002, 15.5 million PDAs will be shipped, an 18 percent
increase from 2001, with shipments totally 13 million units.
This is considerably less than 2000 shipment growth of 114
percent.
- Higher demand for devices with color displays, more powerful
processors, and more storage capacity,
- End-user spending will increase more than 20 percent in 2002,
to $4.6-billion, up from $3.8-billion a year earlier.
- Wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, WLAN, and WAN are
either being built-in or added-on to an increasing proportion of
handheld devices.
- Competition between Microsoft PocketPC and Palm OS will
intensify in the second half of 2002 as Palm OS 5 licensees
introduce products with more powerful ARM-based processors.
- Competition between PDAs and smartphones will intensify at the
end of 2002 or the beginning of 2003 as when smartphones are
expected to overtake PDAs.
For more information: http://www3.gartner.com
Mobileinfo Comments & Advisory: We
find Dataquest findings to show reasonable trends in the PDA market.
Only advice we can make to enterprise IT planners is - please keep
your device replacement cycle short - about 24 to 30 months.
Depreciate full capital cost of your PDAs during this period.
Note: This news release may contain
forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in
developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology
architectures. All trademarks used in this summary are
the property of their respective owners.
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