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Old 08-22-2004, 04:32 PM   #7
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Most people who wants a PDA already has one. And unless a new 'killer' app surface, standalone PDAs has reach what most people want it to do. It's also no longer the 'in' thing - that status is now occupied by the iPod. Sure, in time PDA will surpass iPod as a music device, it will be able to do video, to boot....but that time has not arrived yet. An ipod has a superior interface and it can play music for 8-12 hours...something no PDA could unless you use one of those bulky extended battery packs. Video on PDAs is a joke, who would want to watch the latest blockbuster on a tiny screen...short films yes, but full-length movies, the time needed to convert it is horrendous and not worth it.

A seamless Wifi package and a 800x600 browser might just compel people to upgrade. 640x480 is good but people would need a little more than that to convince to shell out $500-600 needed for a new device.

Or maybe there's just too many new gadgets to satisfy the gadget freaks (the hard core people who typically upgrade whenever new devices arrives)... DVD player, Plasma televisions, iPods, new phones, digital cameras... there's just too many ways to spend our hard earned cash...

Phones, has many reason why it keep growing...there's carrier subsidy, and there's also a major reason to upgrade. First it was analog to digital, then clunky phones to svelte small phones, then from voice-centric phones to SMS capable phones, then to GPRS capable phones, then color screens, now it's camera-equipped phones, then smartphones. If you upgrade through the whole cycle, you would have seven phones.

PDA has largely been the same since sometime ago. Adding maybe wireless connectivity and maybe a better interface and nothing much more. THe h3950 could still do most that a new ipaq could. same with Palmone, what does the T3 has that isn't around when the NR70 arrives... bluetooth? ARM processor? Not worth upgrading for me, the NR70V tablet is better than T3 slider design and you get a camera to boot. Sure, T3 is speedier and has more RAM, but 90% don't require those anyway or don't even know about it....

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