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| PDA Shipments in 2006 reached 17.7 million units |
The analyst firm Gartner published a report according to which the quantity supplied to the world market PDA in 2006 totaled 17.7 million units. This figure is 18.4 percent higher than last year. In this case, the category PDA company classifies the device, weighing less than 454 g, focused mainly on work with data, rather than conventional cellular services, and intended, as a rule, to work with two hands (eg, BlackBerry 87xx, Motorola Q and Nokia E61). But such devices like the Treo 750 and BlackBerry 81xx include Gartner to smartphones, and this statistic does not include. The company's analysts say that in 2006 60 percent of all PDA market has a feature phone. In 2005, this opportunity was provided with only 47 percent of such devices. Additionally, Gartner research showed that in 2006 49 percent of all PDA were purchased by enterprises. The company Research In Motion, according to the report, continues to lead the market PDA, though among its products is now becoming more and more smartphones, starting with the release in September 2006 BlackBerry Pearl. The number of PDA from RIM was in 2006, according to Gartner, 3,510,927 units, up 10 percent over last year. The market share occupied by these products from RIM, is 19.8 percent. Shipments of PDA of Palm fell 29 percent compared with last year. Data from other suppliers PDA can be found in the table.