Worldwide Preliminary PDA Vendor Shipment Estimates, 3Q'05 (Units)
Company	Q3'05 Shipments	Q3'05 Market Share (%)	Q3'04 Shipments	Q3'04 Market Share (%)	Q3'04 - Q3'05 Growth (%)
Research In Motion	862,000	25.0	565,000	19.8	52.6
HP	548,338	16.0	692,113	24.2	-20.02
Palm	478,575	13.9	748,950	26.2	-36.1
T-Mobile	206,800	6.0	51,000	1.8	305.5
Nokia	200,000	5.8	--	0.0	NA
Others	1,149,633	33.3	801,744	28.0	43.4
Total	3,449,346	100.0	2,858,807	100.0	20.7

Notes: Totals do not include smartphones, such as the Treo 650 and BlackBerry 7100, but include wireless PDAs, such as the iPAQ 65xx and Nokia 9300.

Columns may not add to totals shown because of rounding.

NA = Not applicable

Source: Gartner Dataquest, October 2005

T-Mobile Kicks Up the PDA Rankings

Nevermind that Paris Hilton's Sidekick was hacked into early in the year. Shipments of the Sidekick II personal digital assistant surged in the third quarter, helping catapult Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile to No. 5 in global PDA rankings, according to researcher Gartner. T-Mobile shipped 206,800 PDAs in the period, a more than fourfold increase from a year earlier. Market leader Research in Motion fared well too, shipping 862,000 units to widen its share to 25%. In all, shipments rose 21% to 3.45 million, spurred by demand for wireless e-mail and Global Positioning System software. Gartner projects that 15 million PDAs will be shipped this year, surpassing the record 13.2 million units in 2001.

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Posted: 11/15/05