BlackBerry Led Worldwide PDA Industry to 7% Growth in 1Q 2006

Worldwide PDA shipments totaled 3.65 million units in the first quarter of 2006, a 6.6 percent increase from the first quarter of 2005, according to a Gartner report. 

▪ The average selling price of PDAs fell 2.7% compared with one year ago to $395
▪ RIM's BlackBerry worldwide PDA shipments grew 30.8%
▪ RIM accounted for a quarter of all PDA shipments in the quarter
▪ Palm PDA shipments declined 25.2% (shift to Palm's Treo smartphone business)
▪ Hewlett-Packard's iPAQ shipments fell 29.9%
▪ Mio Technology with integrated GPS capabilities is doing well in Europe and Asia/Pacific
▪ Dell Axim shipments declined 34%
▪ Microsoft's Windows Mobile increased share 52.6%. RIM OS was second at 25.5% market share; Palm OS was at 13.4%; Symbian was at 3.6%; and Linux was at 1.2%.


   Gartner: www.gartner.com

May 8, 2006 10:42 PM |

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