Mio Technology reverses the market trend

Despite the decline in worldwide sales of PDAs, Mitac International Corp, one
of Taiwan's leading vendors of personal computers, saw sales growth for its
own-brand 'Mio' in Q1 this year. The reason behind the consecutive declines is
that the conventional PDAs have gradually lost ground to PDA phones and smart
phones because of the new functions added including bluetooth, short-distance
wireless communication technology, WLAN networking capability and GPS location
services. Mitac's Mio PDAs jumped 80 percent, while those for Acer-branded PDAs
dropped 10 percent. According to IDC listing Palm lead the sector with 32.2
percent market share, followed by Hewlett-Packard with 23.5 percent, Dell with
9.7 percent and Acer with 7.5 percent. The only change was in the fifth spot,
where Mio Technology reversed the market trend by posting an 84.4 percent gain
in handheld shipments, compared to Q1 of 2005.