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Originally Posted by surur
This is an odd thing to say, because its exactly in the traditional handheld market where Palm is especially tanking. Q1 2005 They shipped 26% less traditional handhelds than last year, while win mobile is only up and up.
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Yea, I'm not too sure about how to read that one because the more promising figures I've heard were from various PalmSource sources, and there wasn't enough detail to nail it down. But I still think Win Mobile might not be dominating the way it sounds in the press.
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Originally Posted by surur
The Treo is saving their bacon at the moment, and thats mainly in USA (80% of Treos), because all the wonderful Win Mob smartphones are GSM.
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That's an interesting observation about GSM. But maybe things are catching up now on the non-GSM WinMobile side. Just before I bought my Treo, I was looking at a Verizon AudioVox 6600, which I guess has many other names like HTC or AV with another number, etc. It's not VGA, but it's quite impressive and has a nifty slide out keyboard with bubble keys that are much better than you'd expect. The screen is very nice looking also. Plus the pda form factor is the traditional PPC look. If I was on the PPC side and had some extra dollars to spend, I'd get one of those (but probably from someone like Sprint with a better deal on the data plans).