PDAs and cell phones show strong US sales [8/30/2000]

Sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in the US are likely to double by the end of this year,

Total sales of PDAs in 1999 amounted to 1.3 million in the US. June 2000 sales showed a massive increase of 190 percent over June 1999 figures, according to NPD Intellect.

Total dollar sales of PDAs reached USD436.5 million for the whole of 1999, while a figure of USD406.9 million has already been reached by June of this year.

Palm continues to dominate the market with a 65.4 percent share. Handspring, which did not exist in June 1999 is now second to Palm, with a 21.6 percent share.

NPD also found in an earlier report that Internet-ready cellular phones are selling exceptionally well at retail in the past year, and 48 percent of all cell phones sold at retail over the second quarter of 2000 were Internet-ready devices.

Prices for Internet-ready cell phones have also dropped. Such devices retailed at USD164 in the second quarter of 2000 compared to USD211 a year ago.

Source: NUA Internet Surveys

Date of Article: August 29, 2000

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