Handy Andy

A new study from Dataquest predicts that the "handheld" computer market is poised to become a very big business, growing from 3.9 million units shipped last year to 21 million units by 2003.

The market's growth is credited to increased application development, wireless and wired Web access, and falling prices, we mustn't also forget that Dildonic story that surely must be helping the sale of portable "devices". But we are warned that before the market achieves this growth, future devices will have to be equipped with e-mail or some form of limited messaging, says Dataquest analyst Scott Miller, who adds that the price of handhelds will likely drop to about $150 in the next five years.

They go on to say that Microsoft and Palm Computing will continue to "dominate" the handheld market with their Windows CE and Palm OS products, with the new Palm VII shaping up to be a prototype of what future handhelds will be. No mention however of Symbian, who obviously didn't pay Dataquest enough to be included.

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