Fujitsu Siemens To Give Up On PDAs

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

Yesterday we reported how the departure of Dell has helped remaining players in the non-phone PDA market survive another quarter. Now another major player has decided to walk away from the train wreck that is the PDA business. According to unnamed source quoted by the Taiwanese news site DigiTimes, Fujitsu Siemens is expected to withdraw from the PDA sector by the end of this year. Fujitsu Siemens decided to exit from the PDA business as the increasing popularity of PNDs (Personal Navigation Devices) and smartphones has eroded the PDA market, the report suggested. According to the IDC Worldwide Handheld QView numbers we quoted yesterday Fujitsu Siemens is ranked fifth in marketshare for pen and keyboard-based PDAs. It's 3% marketshare for the second quarter of 2007 trailed after Palm (with a 44.1% market share), Hewlett-Packard (23.5%), Mitac International (13.6%) and Dell (3.3%). However, despite ranking in the top five one of which is now exiting the market, Fujitsu Siemens sold only 21,482 units for the second quarter, that is 24.7 per cent on the comparable year ago quarter. According to the IDC data, global sales of 719,000 units for the non phone devices represented a fall of 43.5 percent from the same quarter of 2006. Here is the link to yesterdays story on PDA Marketshares . Related news items Nokia E51: Smarter Than It Looks -19/09/2007 Telstra Launches Another Coonan Attack -12/09/2007 Doh! Phone Pirate Could Get Five Years -17/08/2007 Free iBurst Broadband In Sydney -16/08/2007 HP Plans More iPaqs As PDAs Become Smartphones -12/08/2007 Older news items Motorola Mobile Office Has Barcode Reader -02/05/2007 Q1 #2 -19/03/2007 HP Will Also Offer Draft n Notebooks -09/11/2006 Hard Times Are The Only Increase For PDA Makers -07/08/2006 O2 Beefs Up XDA Atom For Business Users -28/06/2006 Tag This Now: