Palm - soon to be renamed palmOne - has increased its share of the worldwide PDA market. Handhelds running the Palm OS now account for more than 50 per cent of worldwide shipments, according to the latest figures from industry analyst Gartner. During the second quarter of 2003, Palm claimed 38 per cent of the market, up from 30.5 per cent for the same quarter last year, while the share for fellow Palm OS licensee Sony, maker of the Clié range, rose slightly from 10.3 to 11 per cent. Palm OS devices as a whole accounted for 51.4 per cent. Among manufacturers employing Microsoft's Pocket PC platform, Hewlett-Packard leads the way with 15.3 per cent, much of which will be due to its acquisition of Compaq and the popular iPaq range. Dell, a recent entrant into the market with the Axim line-up, took 5.3 per cent.
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