Where Are All the New PDAs and Smartphones?
Posted on 12 May 2007, at 6:42 pm, by Jerry Raia
Is it just me or does it seem like there haven’t been a lot of new devices lately? For quite a while there were announcements of a new PDA or Smartphone every few weeks. Lately it has been eerily quiet, and the remakes of devices for different phone carriers don’t count. Perhaps we are waiting for WM6, but even in the earlier days, with new operating systems in the wings, we saw new devices coming out pretty regularly.
Pete Paxton over at Smartphone Thoughts (where my posts can also be found) has posted about the new HTC Vox, which I do like. The problem is that it isn’t even a 3G phone! Mitchell Oke has posted on these pages about the new HTC Kaiser. Nice, but basically it is just a remake of the HTC “fill in the blank” variety device. The tilting screen is kind of nice though. So tell me do I just have the blinders on? I miss the old days when HTC had a new device every week; even if it was overkill, I still enjoyed the madness!
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5 Comments For This Post
May 12th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Variety is good. Too many similar models make for lackluster sales.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Another point is the complete focus on smartphones, to the exclusion of PDAs. Look through the new Palm Blog – nary a mention of a new Tungsten or LifeDrive, just blather about Treos. That’s all well and good, but some of us choose not to have a cell phone (shocking, isn’t it?), or have no need for one. Personally, my commute to work is under ten minutes, and I cannot take any personal electronics into my office anyway, so I’d use a cell phone twenty minutes per day? Eh.
But, my 3 year-old Clie, that has been heavily used in more personal settings, rather than business settings.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Judie, starting in June, you will begin to see the onslaught of new devices, more then likely starting with the iPhone of course, from my understanding there are a minimum of 5 new devices from Cingular and at least 3 from Verizon expected this year. Patience is a virtue.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’m the one with no patience however.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
@blueshockey69 – Jerry actually wrote this…but I tend to agree with him. After all the CES, 3GSM & CTIA excitement, things have just been so quiet lately. I’m ready to get my hands on some new gadgets!