I was watching an old episode of Tekzilla and one of the viewer questions was about the PDA already in a state of becoming obsolete. The hosts argued that since smartphones are becoming more popular, they’ve slowly replaced the stand-alone PDAs.
Makes sense — why get a separate PDA and a phone when you can have a smartphone? The first and last time I got me a PDA was 2004; t’was a Palm Zire 71.
Only used it for about 3 or 4 months and completely forgot about it. T’was too bulky to tag around and battery life wasn’t that good. Fortunately, I was able to swap it with a friend for a brand new Dunlop badminton racket and bag. I was on the shorter end of the deal but was fine to get rid of it.
Palm isn’t even doing any better lately. There’s also the threat of the iPhone, esp. once the official 3rd-party apps are out.
Anybody out there still using PDAs (the stand-alone ones)?
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I really don’t have a chance to use any PDA’s, a lot of people encourges me to use one. I don’t why, I just don’t really like PDA.
i was able to use one of those palms way back. i stopped using it after a year.
me! i use it to play sudoku and watch naruto shippuuden on my way home
Not sure but I think stand-alone PDAs are still better than SmartPhones = memory.
I’ve seen and talked to my colleagues who have smartphones and used different smartphones for years, they said the only catch is - it’s slow. If you really want a PDA, get a stand-alone. But if you won’t need it that much or rather you just want it as an “add-on”, then get a smartphone.
It is similar to buying a phone with a 10-megapixels camera. Buy a stand-alone a camera than a celphone, the stand-alone will always be better.
Second, we’re in the Philippines, and thieves and snatchers is everywhere, even right in our own homes and offices. Why risk losing two or three important functions and/or technologies for your life?
Finally, people carry at least 2 mobile phones, be it ordinary or smart, then a laptop.
In that sense, PDA vs. Laptop, I’ll choose Laptop (with Ubuntu on it).
PDA is still alive, not just to the “masses”, more on for the corporate people.
I was once an avid user of Palm PDAs now I have switched to Nokia E61i, an all in one device.
I think it’s very much dead. Mobile phone manufacturers have successfully integrated PDA functions into their devices thus making stand-alone PDA’s obsolete.
I still have my Qool QDA-700 palm based SmartPhone. I’m having a hard time adding applications because it needs to run on Palm OS
being a stand-alone PDA user for years, i hate to admit it, but i think the stand-alone PDAs are already dying. HP is trying to keep it alive with 2 models, while everybody else like Palm, Dell, and Toshiba have either stopped manufacturing or switched to the smartphone bandwagon. i also switched to the smartphone bandwagon when Windows Mobile 5 was introduced and never looked back to the 2 piece option of a phone and a pda combo.
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It could still have some use and application for some people if the price is right, let’s say around 1K would still be a good gadget for the masses or jolog like me
or maybe a good replacement for a casio or sharp scientific calculator for engineering students.
It’s not dead yet.. but it’s dying. My Dell Axim x50v has been sitting on desk gathering dust.
PDAs are still useful for medical / nursing professionals though.
A PDA with cellular calling, now we’re talking.
I always wanted PDA but could never justify the purchase. If I couldn’t be bothered to us a paper organizer, what difference would a gadget organizer make? My life was never complicated enough to need structuring anyway.
Business users who rush from meeting to meeting may still need them, but they also want the highest end gadgets and less stuff to carry around, so smartphones have been takin gover. There hasn’t been much, if any new PDA releases, so I think it’s safe to say they’re dead or on the way out.
You mean your PDA when you’re still with ITI? Yeah I remember…hehehe =P
I recently moved up to a WiFi PDA & find that not even the manufacture support them, they’ve all moved onto phones. I have a Sony Clie & even Palm no longer supports it’s Life Drive.
Sadly they don’t care, like so much of business today, companies are all chasing the new hot market while abandoning their older products. They seem to feel they can force people to keep buying the new stuff.
Sad.