The smartphone market has increased yet another 66% in the first quarter of this year. Over 16.7m ’smart’ mobile devices were shipped over the last four months, 55% more than the same time in 2005, and while that includes “handhelds, wireless handhelds and smartphones“, Nokia hold a comfortable lead in the ’smart mobile device’ sector, showing that smartphones are still the devices of choice for consumers.

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According to Mr. Chris Leckness on a Dell Axim forum, aximsite.com, all the signs are currently pointing to Dell pulling their line of successful PDAs and focusing on their other product lines. Dell’s Axim range have been best sellers on a number of occassions, providing ‘end-user’ PDAs in a sector full of ‘business’ models, but as Leckness recognises, the Axim is probably only a “microscopic portion” of Dell’s income, and with HP and Palm still wiping the floor with them in terms of product range, he and his fellow Axim owners are starting to panic.

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Just thought I’d reassure you…and my boss…that my little blog isn’t all that I do in a day. I’ve also been building up a Press Section for TotalPDA. I put all of the press releases and news articles from the big names in PDAs, GPS systems and Mobiles up there and update it a few times a day. So if you don’t find the information you’re looking for in Jill’s Corner, try the Newsroom.

Also, if you’re a budding reviewer and would like to see your work on the web, there is contact details and details of how you can get your work published for the world to see. If you’ve any questions, post here and ask or contact me through one of the emails on the site.

Here’s a thought..are you looking to buy a PDA, GPS, smartphone or something similiar? Are you stuck on which one would suit you best? Can you not decide between two brands? Or do you just want to know more about a product before you buy it? If any of these apply - post and ask me and I’ll test them out. How’s that for a plan?

A Texas college is piloting a program that will allow students to take an entire college course on a PDA. According to Wendy Gragg at the Kileen Daily Herald, the Central Texas College (CTC) have decided that this is the way to reach people who would not normally be able to gain a college education. The CTC chancellor claims that:


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