13.Feb.2003
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HP Leads the Sales Charts for the Pocket PC Market Segment
Hewlett-Packard is at the top of Pocket PC sales charts, with 3 million IPAQs sold so far worldwide.
HP was also able to begin this great success in the PDA market in 2002. As the worldwide #1 in the Windows Pocket PC
market HP has reached a market share of 52 percent, according to previous statistics from Gartner Dataquest.
These numbers show a steady growth in market share by HP for all four quarters in the last year, thereby remaining the second largest
producer of PDAs worldwide. According to the figures from Gartner HP sold about 1.6 million units in the last year. From the third to
the fourth quarter HP clearly grew more quickly than the market in general, with sales growing from 292,850 in the third quarter
to 438,069 in the fourth.
From there HP was able to break the three million mark and show a thoroughly successful result of
their post-merger plans. The three million milestone was reached nine months after the two million milestone, which
came eight months after the merger with Compaq was finalized.
HP introduced an innovation in handhelds in November 2002 - the HP iPAQ Pocket PC H5450 was the first
to have biometric security functions, wireless LAN networking capabilities and Bluetooth functionality. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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