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@whizzkid, I believe you are correct. A prime example are the xda phones. They are a phone based on a pre-existing pda platform. The xda's are almost indistinguishable from a standalone pocketpc (other than the fact they include a phone).
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Posted: 2005-07-02 16:48:56
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#max_wedge and whizzkid
Youre absolutely right in everything you write, its just when the industry categorize them they are distinquised between Smartphones and PDA's
Today PDA's are mainly different in the way that they are (usually) not phones, and have stronger cpu's. There are also differences in the operating systems running on Pocket PC's and smartphones based on Windows mobile for instance. Sure, its getting more and more difficult to find any differences, but in general a smartphone is weaker.
You are free to call your P910 a PDA, I still call it a Smartphone
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Posted: 2005-07-02 16:49:52
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I've never come across that distinction as such, but I'm a computer tech not phone tech so I wouldn't know
I guess if you think about it, not all smartphones come from pre-existing pda's.
I still think it's a strange thing for freedominput to say, but you may be right they may mean that se never took up the pda market...
I probably shouldn't be paying any attention to their badly worded sales pitch
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Posted: 2005-07-02 17:04:10
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"Mobile Phone products are set to absorb and replace the widely used Pocket PCs and PDAs. The battle starts in earnest in 2005 Sony-Ericsson have already withdrawn from the PDA market." "www.freedominput.com ...
Ericsson made PDAs ...
Sony made PDAs ...
SE never made PDAs in the first place ...
SE makes "Mobile Phone products" not PDAs ...
P-series is a phone with PDA functions, not a PDA with phone features, meaning it is a phone with a more flexible OS.
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Posted: 2005-07-02 18:42:51
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Correct me if I'm wrong but are they not refering to the Sony Clie range?
It has been one of Sony's ( and
) philosophies that the PDA will eventually evolve into the Smartphone, so for them to go back on that simply doesn't add up.
Don't worry, we'll get our Smartphone (code named Hermione), one has 'apparently' already been spotted and there's enough info about it out there, and on here.
It was going to be showcased at CommunicAsia but they put it back to September.
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Posted: 2005-07-02 19:21:00
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A PDA and Smartphone are generally considered two different devices. A Palm, or iPaq, or Clie' could be considered a PDA, while a P910 is a Smartphone. This is based on the functionality and OS of the device. A P910 has PDA functionality but has Symbian as its OS. My z800 has PDA functionality but has a basic phone OS, thus no smart phone.
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Posted: 2005-07-02 20:31:05
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SE never did have dedicated PDA's in the market...
Sony did retire from the PDA business, its just the Clie line of handhelds.
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Posted: 2005-07-02 20:39:09
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Yes, Ericsson made the MC216 and MC218 a few years back.
I had a 218 and was proud as anything of it.
Decided to sell it to a chap who was going to study in the US and never saw eigther him or my money again...
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Posted: 2005-07-02 20:51:47
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Ericsson also had a PDA type phone. I do not recall the name of it but I had one.
It was blue and had a flip. It ran some OS that I can not recall.
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Posted: 2005-07-02 21:33:37
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On 2005-07-02 21:33:37, sapporobaby wrote:
Ericsson also had a PDA type phone. I do not recall the name of it but I had one.
It was blue and had a flip. It ran some OS that I can not recall.
I think that was the R380 or something like that, I'm sure Bobafett would confirm that or not!
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Posted: 2005-07-02 22:02:51
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