Is the PDA dead, or close?

I don’t have a smartphone (just a basic one) and I do have a PDA. I use my PDA a lot, mainly for appointments, notes, and as a portable media player for music, movies and books on the go. Sadly, it is becoming more difficult to find apps to expand the use of my faithful Lifedrive.

I could reasonably switch to a smartphone, but refuse to do so until I locate one that I can use comfortably as a media player in my van as well. I hear the iPhone would work, but for now I’m content with my stodgy old phone and faithful Lifedrive.

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.

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.

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.

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Cheers!

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.

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.

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 able to use one of those palms way back. i stopped using it after a year.