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As long as people are still buying them, there will always be companies who continue to release new PDA's. The advantages Hacker sums up are all very real. Still, the PDA has always been a niche product and has never been able to break into the mass market. The average Joe/Jane just doesn't feel compelled to buy a PDA. The mobile phone is a much more commonplace and "fashionable" item. I would say that SmartPhones are more an evolution of the mobile phone rather than a replacement for PDA's. My only worry is that PDA development will come to a standstill because companies pour all their R&D into SmartPhones.
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