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Originally Posted by radleyp
The Jupiter report to which you refer speaks of a future of converged devices, but the convergence is with wireless (the smartphones that are now taking an ever bigger slice of the pda market).
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Wireless devices are one of the forks. Byron did mention "communications" along with multimedia and navigation...
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The Archos-like devices are video and gaming devices that do not seek to be pda's.
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I guess you haven't seen
this. I don't think it's a fluke that Archos is adding this functionality to their PVPs.
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A PDA buyers are not looking for gaming devices, especially in the business sector, so Tapwave must appeal to the regular consumer, and if it is absent from the market for a significant period, with all the competition, it could well be forgotten. BTW, I certainly hope it isn't, as I love any Palm device. Philippe Radley
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I don't agree with your blanket statement (a good number definitely are). Besides, they don't necessarily have to be looking for a gaming device, and as Tapwave has said, they're focusing on multimedia. Plenty of non-gamers own Zodiacs, and if you spend any time in the forums at Tapland you'll see this for yourself. It's a very capable wireless PDA for email, web browsing,
GPS navigation (Bryon mentioned navigation a couple of times), as
a viable laptop replacement and multimedia device for reading
ebooks, listening to music, viewing photos, and watching movies.
Combined with a BT enabled cell phone, you can browse the web, moblog, and fetch email (an on-screen thumboard would be nice
). Many Zodiac owners go this route instead of having a smartphone that would be inadequate for gaming and multimedia due to the small screen and poor button layout.
As far as mobile gaming goes, I strongly disagree as mobile gaining is
no longer child's play.
With increasing convergence combining traditional PIM/PDA functionality with wireless communications, multimedia and even gaming, more and more devices will handle all of these roles as people don't want to carry multiple, single purpose mobile devices.
Brian