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PDA shipments up 7.4% in Q4 2005
Microsoft Windows CE was the leading mobile OS in 2005 as 7.05 mln PDAs were loaded with the OS, up 33% from 2004 shipments of 5.
Microsoft Windows CE was the leading mobile OS in 2005 as 7.05 mln PDAs were loaded with the OS, up 33% from 2004 shipments of 5.28 mln units. Palm OS PDA shipments declined 34% to 2.96 mln units in 2005.
| Global PDA shipments in Q4 2005 | |||||
| Q4 2005 | Q4 2004 | Growth | |||
| Vendor | Shipments | Share | Shipments | Share | YTY |
| Palm | 1,037,680 | 23.5 | 1,226,525 | 29.9 | -15.4 |
| Research In Motion | 780,000 | 17.7 | 698.000 | 17.0 | 11.7 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 660,463 | 15.0 | 869,000 | 21.1 | -24.0 |
| T-Mobile | 305,000 | 6.9 | 96,000 | 2.3 | 217.7 |
| Mio Technology | 220,214 | 5.0 | 83,645 | 2.0 | 163.3 |
| Others | 1,405,569 | 31.9 | 1,135,788 | 27.6 | 23.8 |
| Total | 4,408,926 | 100.0 | 4,108,958 | 100.0 | 7.3 |
| Source: Gartner | |||||