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Originally Posted by latepaul
At some point someone figured out how to combine these functions, and others, well - and we got smartphones. I think it was partly design and partly that the technology had to catch up - touch screens and faster mobile CPUs. Once they were good enough a watershed was reached and the market for PDAs went from being massive to niche.
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Basically Handspring/Palm killed their own PDAs by combining a Palm PDA with a phone. The Handspring (then Palm) Treo is what killed the PDA.
But I don't see anything on the horizon in smartphones or tablets that would displace an eReader for reading. I don't (currently) see a tablet or smartphone innovation that would cause me to drop my eInk eReaders. As an "emergency" reader my smartphone works okay. Tablets, on the other hand (and speaking just for me) are too heavy, have too short of a battery life and have an inferior screen. And they're too big and usually shaped wrong. I like the shape and size of the current 5" and 6" eInk eReaders.