According to IDC’s view, Vendor has shipped total 683004 units in three months, which is 53.2% less from last year’s four month. On other hand, vendors shipped total three million units world wide. 5.5 million unites shipped in year 2006.The senior research analyst named Ramon Llamas has said that the three months brings an increase in shipment to meet holiday demand.
According to Ramon Llamas, if we look at each three months of 2007, few of top vendors have seen their shipment volumes start to level off. This brings a great hope among them and keeps continuing to introduce new models and features.
As you can see that in this table, Palm is at the top of the table for the year 2007.
Top Five Handheld Device Vendors, Full Year 2007 Results
|
Vendor |
2007 |
2007 |
2006 |
2006 |
2007/2006 |
| Palm |
1,281,050 |
42.0% |
1,982,000 |
36.2% |
-35.4% |
| HP |
754,800 |
24.8% |
1,210,000 |
22.1% |
-37.6% |
| Mio |
376,139 |
12.3% |
442,893 |
8.1% |
-15.1% |
| Fujitsu-Siemens |
130,534 |
4.3% |
103,491 |
1.9% |
26.1% |
| Dell |
108,175 |
3.5% |
490,000 |
9.0% |
-77.9% |
| Others |
396,849 |
13.0% |
1,245,169 |
22.7% |
-68.1% |
| Total |
3,047,547 |
100.0% |
5,473,553 |
100.0% |
-44.3% |