Smartphone a Hot Seller in S.F. “Kyocera’s newly released personal digital assistant smartphone is sold out in San Francisco.

Retailers are apparently unable to keep up with the demand for Kyocera’s QCP 6035 — a converged PDA
smartphone that runs on the Palm operating system — since its release three weeks ago.” Wired But “only early adopters are snapping up the PDA cell phones in the United States —
and even these users seem to be carrying around more than one device.

PDA cell phones just aren’t light enough and don’t cost what consumers are willing to dish
out, the industry says. In other words, these PDA phones will languish along with the other
high-end cell phones and PDAs floating around the marketplace today.

‘I’m not willing to make a prediction for more than five years,’ said Palm’s developer Ted
Ladd. ‘I carry my cell phone and Palm. There are times when I want one or the other.’ ” Several other contenders vie with the Kyocera phone as combination devices, using various OS’s for their PDA components. Wired The trick would be if PDA cell phones avoid doing two things badly, because we already have devices that do each of the two things well.