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Handheld Shipments Increasing
News Worldwide handheld shipments inched up 0.9 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, according to a new report from Dataquest. Overall, the US handheld market grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, with...
[October 29, 2002, 11:12]
Handheld Sales Keep Sliding
News IDC announced late on Tuesday that worldwide handheld shipments for the second quarter were down 10.7 percent, to 2.27 million units, compared with the same period a year ago. The second quarter is a traditionally slow selling season, but shipments...
[July 23, 2003, 11:56]
Handhelds Make A Comeback
News European shipments of handheld computers broke the one-million mark for the first time during the last quarter of 2003, while smartphone shipments topped two million, according to research from Canalys published on Monday.
[January 26, 2004, 15:05]
Palm Stays Atop Handheld Market
News Worldwide shipments of handheld computers increased 68 percent over the third quarter to 3.83 million units, according to figures released Thursday from IDC. Compared with the same period a year ago, shipments declined 4.2 percent, but that's far...
[January 25, 2002, 12:36]
Smartphones Eat Into Handheld Market
News The market for mobile phones is increasingly encroaching on the market for handheld organisers, leading to a second straight year of decline in organiser shipments, according to a report from research firm IDC.
[August 19, 2003, 11:10]
Handheld Sales Lose Their Grip
News The handheld computer industry saw a 9.5 percent drop in shipments during the third quarter, as economic woes and weak consumer demand took their toll, according to new research. Shipments fell worldwide, according to a report on Monday from...
[November 7, 2001, 15:30]
Palm Aims To Break China Market
News China has the largest handheld market in the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan and accounted for 68 percent of total shipments in the region last year, according to IDC. Compared with 2001, handheld computer shipments in China shrank 15 percent...
[April 22, 2003, 15:46]
HP To Release Two New IPaqs
News The Palo Alto, California-based company will use the low-end model to go after the $200 to $400 (£128 to £256) midrange market, which accounts for half of all handheld shipments, according to Cindy Box, a marketing director for handhelds at HP.
[October 3, 2002, 8:08]
Palm Shareholders Set For Split
News The once-promising market has been slumping, with worldwide shipments down this year compared to last, according to researcher IDC. A silver lining appeared in the third quarter, as shipments were up 1.1 percent, to 2.37 million units, because of a...
[October 28, 2003, 11:00]
New Palm OS Handhelds Look For A Niche
News According to research firm Gartner, worldwide handheld shipments declined in the second quarter by 3.5 percent compared with the second quarter of 2001, dropping to 2.7 million units. It accounted for 9.6 percent of the worldwide PDA unit shipments...
[August 20, 2002, 8:28]
Palm OS Looks To Voice
News This statement comes at time when handheld shipments around the world continue to decline. While global sales of pure handhelds are shrinking, shipments of converged PDA-telephony devices are rising, IDC Asia-Pacific analyst Bryan Ma told CNETAsia...
[July 21, 2003, 11:17]
HP Grabs European Handheld Crown From Palm
News HP lost ground in the second quarter, but its shipments increased 87 percent in the third quarter, to 201,060 units, compared with the same period a year ago. Shipments in the United States continued a downward trend in the second quarter, dipping...
[October 22, 2003, 9:30]
PDA Market Remains Buoyant
News The latest figures from Gartner Dataquest show a 9.1 percent decline in PDA shipments from 2001, mainly because enterprise buyers aren't yet convinced they should buy such handheld computers. Researchers at Canalys have calculated Q4 2002 mobile...
[January 28, 2003, 13:05]
IDC Sees Decline In Handheld Market
News Shipments in the third quarter fell to 2.1 million units, down 4.6 percent compared with the second quarter, and down 8.7 percent compared with the third quarter of last year, the market researcher said.
[October 29, 2004, 8:59]
Dell Says Axim Performance Sorted
News Dell responded fairly quickly to reports of the Axim X5 glitch, ultimately delaying shipments of the handheld by about two weeks as it developed the upgrade. Dell held shipments between 16 July and 30 July.
[September 8, 2003, 11:15]
Dell Fixes Axim Glitch
News Despite continued declines in the handheld market, Dell has risen to fourth place worldwide in handheld shipments. Dell halted shipments of new Axim X5 handhelds on the same day. Dell did delay shipments by nine days, but it continued to take...
[July 29, 2003, 10:55]
Palm Hands In Revenue Warning
News Worldwide shipments of handhelds declined by about 9 percent year over year to 12.1 million units during 2002, according to market researcher Gartner Dataquest. Palm shipments declined about 12 percent to 4.4 million in 2002, the research firm said.
[March 3, 2003, 15:24]
Dell Withdraws Axim Fix
News Despite declining shipment numbers in the overall handheld market, the company has risen to fourth place worldwide in handheld shipments. Dell halted shipments of the new handhelds the same day. The Texas-based company began offering the patch on...
[July 31, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft Adds Wireless To Pocket PC
News The handheld market has seen shipments slide over the last couple of quarters, partly as a result of major player Handspring shifting its focus from handhelds to combination organiser-phone devices. In the first quarter, Dell shot up to the No.spot...
[June 12, 2003, 9:03]
Palm Losing The Revenue Game To Compaq
News Gartner expects device shipments from Palm will drop significantly compared with the same quarter last year while shipments of Compaq's iPaq devices will increase. Selling to large businesses is the main reason for the high volume of shipments...
[June 18, 2001, 10:20]
