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PocketPC is not just the device, but the operating system as well. If you look at a smartphone, the OS listed in the Asset Manager will likely identify itself as "Pocket PC Phone Edition".
Smartphones are generally defined as any device having more to offer than just telephony services. Calendars, Memos, or PDA functionality are all that it takes to label such a phone as a "SmartPhone". So it goes that any PDA with telephony services will also be considered a Smartphone. But there are plenty of devices out there that have NO telephony services, like the Pocket Loox n560, newly released in Europe over the last four or five months.
But the writing is on the wall, PocketPCs will start including telephony services as part of future default build-outs (just like Wireless WiFi is becoming more and more a standard).
People that buy a PDA that happens to include PCS/CELL telephony services will continue to call their devices PocketPCs or PDAs, and people who buy their device for the cellphone telephony services will continue to call their devices smartphones.
So when you talk about PocketPCs being dead, you can't be further from the truth.
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