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"The handheld computer market is dead. Sales of traditional PDAs are tanking, the market is shrinking, and smartphones are the wave of the future.
Well, not quite.
If you follow the news of the handheld computing world at all, you've probably heard this before. Trumpeting the approaching world domination of all things smartphone has been the most popular pasttime for pundits, professional and amateur alike, for quite a long time now. If I had to put a date on it, I would place it towards the end of 2003, when the Treo 600 made its debut, accompanied by a massive PR campaign by then-merging manufacturers Handspring and Palm. Ever since that time, it's been almost impossible to go a day without hearing someone saying virtually the same thing: handhelds are dead, smartphones are the future, and that soon we'll all be picking at tiny keyboards, or inputting text via a numeric keypad in between doses of arthritis medication and finger de-knarling appointments."
It's quite frequent we hear the handheld and Pocket PC market is dying right before some record setting sales quarter or something. Here is another writeup on why the analysts are wrong and market is alive and well.
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