The current trend for mobile phones is one that has seen the multi-function handsets take on a higher portion of the market share as business users recognise the merits of internet access, email usage and more.
In the world of mobile phones PDAs are king – Personal Digital Assistants to give them their full name – and it is no surprise they are so popular. They are not just phones PDAs are very useful tools indeed; given that you can use them as an out of the office secretary. Keeping a diary and client details, or sending you reminders and such – and also send email, it is a given that rather than being used simply as phones PDAs will come in for a greater level of use.
This is why many manufacturers have cottoned on to the sales potential of these increasingly impressive devices and whereas Blackberry had established itself as the leader in the PDA smart phone market, many rival manufacturers are seeing that the needs of the business user points in this direction.
As far as the future goes for mobile phones PDAs are set to stay, and with improvements in technology happening all the time who knows what the business user will be able to do on a mobile handset in ten, even five years time? Look back a decade, and think how different things were then!