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According to an BBC online article, Sony will soon cease selling its PDA products outside of Japan. Is this a good move? With an increasing market for the personal assistants her in Australia is Sony missing out on a chance to make mega bucks.

Well no, Sony have seen the light or heard the phone ring, Whichever, is the case? Despite wireless connectivity and increasing technologies the PDA as a separate unit may well have had its day. Considering, that ten years ago the PDA and the mobile phone were classed as must haves for the then future business man, it’s a fitting end that the two are morphing into the one product.

Sony, through its mobile phone manufacturing company Sony – Erricson are already offering mobile phones with most of the functions available on today’s PDA machines. Sony feels the mobile phone will more prominent in the future and thus have taken this path to make the mobile phone more useful in general day to day living and are looking at a strategy to converge contents like music, movies and games with hardware and converge contents like music, movies and games with hardware.