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Palm wasn’t the first to introduce a PDA, as any fan of the Apple Newton will tell you. And it isn’t the first to offer a smart phone for $200 or less. Similarly priced phones such as the Nokia E62 and the BlackBerry Pearl are already available. Smart phones typically can access e-mail and the Web, manage personal information and be used for phone calls.

But Palm had the marketing savvy 10 years ago to make the Palm Pilot a widespread success. And it likely still has the savvy to turn the smart phone, which so far has been embraced primarily by early adopters doling out as much as $600, into a mainstream tool for consumers. The irony is that the victim of lower smart phone prices will be Palm’s first big innovation, the PDA.

“Clearly, PDAs as a growth market are done,” said Neil Strother, a mobile devices market analyst at research firm NPD Group Inc.

Full Article: Another nail in the PDA’s coffin?

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