HP's iPAQ 110 and 210 PDAs get shipment date, prices
We know that you're all on pins and needles right now waiting to find out when you can get your hands on those new HP PDAs, the iPAQ 110 and 210, and how much it will cost you when you do. Well, you're in luck, because the company …
Context & Ripple Effects
HP is filling in the commercial details for the iPaq 610 and 910 smart phones' smaller siblings: the iPAQ 110 and 210 are classic PDAs without cellular radios, and the company has now committed to shipment dates and prices. Coming a month after the September smart-phone launch, the move shows HP running both product lines side by side rather than folding the handheld range into phones outright.
First-order effects
- Buyers and channel partners finally have concrete dates and price points for the iPAQ 110 and 210, letting corporate purchasers plan deployments against a real ship window instead of an announcement.
Second-order effects
- The non-cellular iPAQs now compete directly with HP's own iPaq 610 and 910 smart phones, forcing HP's sales teams and resellers to position two overlapping handhelds at different price tiers within one portfolio.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, standalone PDAs survive only as budget or specialized devices while phone hardware absorbs the organizer function — leaving vendors like HP hedging with dual lines until the cheaper category becomes untenable.
The trend: Handheld computing is consolidating around converged smart-phone devices, with legacy PDA lines persisting as low-cost stopgaps before full absorption.