Palm retained its lead in the worldwide PDA arena last quarter as PocketPC's share of the business fell significantly and the market as a whole dipped on the previous quarter. According to market watcher Gartner Dataquest's figures for third-quarter global PDA shipments, the number of machines shipped fell by just under ten per cent, from 2.81 million units in Q2 to 2.54 million. Palm's share of that total dipped to 29.7 per cent - some 745,000 units worldwide - down from 31.7 per cent in Q2. Palm OS licensee Handspring took 14 per cent of the market, a market trend-breaking increase on the 11 per cent it held during the previous quarter. The company then shipped 300,000 units; during Q3 it shipped 352,000 PDAs.
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