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Colin Dunstan · 04-20-2005, 12:55 PM

Before you beat the living daylights out of me, please know that I didn't make this statement. The blame is all on Russ Beattie. In his latest blog entry What is PalmOne Celebrating Exactly?, he is questioning palmOne's self-proclaimed success with the Treo.

You see, the Treo 600 was launched in September 2003, so it's taken them roughly 20 months to sell a million units, which works out to about 50,000 Treos sold a month. That's pretty pathetic. Keep in mind there were roughly 675 million mobile phones sold last year worldwide, including 14.38 million Symbian phones (and 6.67m in 2003).

I think it is a bit unfair to compare the Treo to a whole industry segment (wouldn't it be better if he compared it to a specific competiting product?). Moreover, shouldn't we look at the Treo more as a PDA than as a mobile phone?

04-20-2005, 12:55 PM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Palm completely irrelevant in the mobile market Before you beat the living daylights out of me, please know that I didn't make this statement. The blame is all on Russ Beattie. In his latest blog entry What is PalmOne Celebrating Exactly?, he is questioning palmOne's self-proclaimed success with the Treo. You see, the Treo 600 was launched in September 2003, so it's taken them roughly 20 months to sell a million units, which works out to about 50,000 Treos sold a month. That's pretty pathetic. Keep in mind there were roughly 675 million mobile phones sold last year worldwide, including 14.38 million Symbian phones (and 6.67m in 2003). I think it is a bit unfair to compare the Treo to a whole industry segment (wouldn't it be better if he compared it to a specific competiting product?). Moreover, shouldn't we look at the Treo more as a PDA than as a mobile phone?