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To: KevRupert who wrote (141)	7/13/2000 9:07:30 PM
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COMS/PALM/SYMBIAN PDA Ratios: Global PDA Production to Reach 10 Million Units in 2000: Nikkei Survey July 12, 2000 (TOKYO) -- Global production of personal digital assistants in 1999 topped 6 million units, double the previous year, and it is expected to hit 10.7 million units by the end of 2000, Nikkei Market Access said. The Q1 production this year was 1.91 million units, up 64.2 percent over same period last year. The full-year production in volume is expected to show a 76.6 percent rise year-on-year. Notably, PDAs with "Palm OS," the operating system developed by Palm Inc., were the most popular, with world production of 3.25 million units and a market share of 53.7 percent in volume in 1999. The second most popular operating system was Windows CE at 1.73 million units or 28.5 percent. And third were terminals with the EPOC OS of Symbian Ltd. of the Untied Kingdom, with 537,000 units or 8.9 percent. Palm has been licensing Palm OS actively since 1999, so its Palm OS is likely to keep this momentum throughout 2000. The "Visor" series, a Palm OS PDA that Handspring Inc. started shipping in the forth quarter of 1999 in the United States, is growing as popular as the "Palm III" and "Palm V" series, and might become one of the major Palm OS-installed products in 2000. Late this year, Sony Corp. also will introduce a Palm-OS item to the market. The unit-based percentage of Palm OS-installed terminals to total PDA production in 2000 is estimated at 58.8 percent, up 5 percentage points from last year. (*) Personal digital assistants (PDAs) refer to either products having built-in telecommunications functions or a terminal that transmits data using other external telecommunications tools or mobile phones. Notebook PCs, electronic notepads, e-mail terminals and Internet cellular phones are excluded. (Nikkei Market Access) I didn't know the Windows CE had a 28.5% PDA marketshare. That's getting a little too big! The Visor will help out with maintaining Palm's lead, and Sony's introduction should be beneficial. A Symbian alliance would be welcome news as well. ad