Mobile Tech Digest: Windows Mobile devices drive growth in PDA sales

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Shipments of Windows Mobile PDAs grew 64 percent in the first quarter of 2007, and this strong growth helped propel worldwide PDA shipments to 5.1 million units, a 39.7 percent increase from the first quarter of 2006, according to recently released report by Gartner, Inc.

It seems as though Microsoft is really doing well in the PDA / smartphone industry, and it’s definitely helped by the support of manufacturers like HTC, although it looks as though things may change.

Windows Mobile will certainly be an important part of the mobile computing landscape, but at the moment it appears it may not be as dominant as Microsoft wants it to be.

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