Requiem for a Machine: The season's hot gadget proves that PDAs are obsolete. (18 Dec 2003)

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Requiem for a Machine: The season's hot gadget proves that PDAs are obsolete. (18 Dec 2003)
The Treo marks the end of the era of oversized PDAs and hybrid hand-helds that just happen to make calls, presuming you were willing to hold them awkwardly to your head or to walk around wearing a headset. The signs have been obvious, for those willing to see them: Walk through midtown Manhattan, and you see phone stores on every block, not PDA stores. Handspring has acceded to popular demand, and it's now the first PDA company to reinvent itself as a phone-maker.

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