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.

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.

PDAs are still useful for medical / nursing professionals though.

Cheers!

Thanks and regards,
Al

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.